Fernando Terrazzino wrote: >lol, maybe the b&w was an unconscious move not to deal with the to >blue or not to blue decision ;-) > >Ann's question makes me wonder, in general do ppl feel there are >images that work better in B&W rather than color? To me this one works >better in B&W, but my question is, have you ever find yourself before >a color image and you say, "Hey, this one would look better in B&W". I >must admit that in my case I rarely do, but again when I do, I find it >hard to explain why (the "timeless" feeling phrase was my lame / >broken english attempt to do so ;-). > > > > ann sez - Certainly, _I_ do - :) I used to always carry two cameras in the film days when I traveled - one with PKR 64 color slide film and the other with tRi-x .... sometimes I shot a scene in both - in fact, if I was somewhere I doubted I'd be back to or the light was exceptional I'd make sure I covered myself - slides in one place, tri-x in another after a shoting session the slides got mailed to Fairlawn to be sent home and the TRi-x I carried with me after exposure.
I think color is actually much harder than black and white to achieve something that stands the test of time, that you can live with on your wall for a long time. It is easy to get a pleasent enough snap in color of friends and beasts and glorious sunsets or whatever, but I find it very difficult to get anything that is well, dare I say, more important? (boy, talk about sounding pompus hehe.) Maybe better to say color can get in the way sometimes. I find it hard to shoot in color anticipating that the final product I want is black and white - when I shot in black and white I used at the very least a yellow filter that turned the scene monochrome and allowed me to get closer to what I wanted to end up with while I was shooting. sorry - I'm drowsy and I'm babbling ann -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
