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John Lucas wrote: > > ======================================================= > -> This is The 'SPORRS' Mailing List > -> Info File: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/infosporrs.htm > -> Note: Remember to include your name in each list post or reply. > -> Please delete all unnecessary quoted text from the original message! > ======================================================= > > > > >In a message dated 98-05-08 23:39:40 EDT, you write: > > > ><< > > Yes, b&w is an art. Yes it has it's place. > > > > So do antiques. > > >> > > > I guessed I missed this gem because so much of what is currently being > posted to SPORRS I am deleting. > > Whoever wrote this business of antiques, I challenge to put up a color > image superior to some of my black and whites; let alone the others already > referred to. Anybody can shoot color; few can shoot black and white! > > Let me guess; the author is in its teens or 20-something. > Jeez, you guys! Read the stuff! I asked in a simple post to compare notes about which color films perform best in low light and twilight conditions. I got several very good technical discussions going about this. And I read every word of it and saved much of it for future reference. Then someone posted that I should forget color in bad weather and shoot black and white. If I were interested in black and white photography, I would have mentioned it in the post. Yes, there are about a dozen great black and white artists out there taking train pictures. I am not one of them, nor do I aspire to that. I like absolutely NOTHING about TAKING black and white pictures. I find darkroom work to be boring and painstaking. I am allergic to fixer. I hate using filters. And I just cannot get myself to "see" in black and white when I am out making pictures (which is what I happen to do for a living). I am probably the biggest Winston Link fan in this hemisphere; I have autographed copies of his stuff, all the classics by Benson and Steinheimer and the other artists whose black and white railroad stuff is truly artistic and inspiring. But I don't SHOOT black and white...so when I asked for some expert, experienced opinions on certain color techniques, that's what I expected to get! Somebody else said we were a bunch of golfers quibbling over which clubs to use. Nope, I was a golfer asking about certain clubs, and somebody handed me a racket and told me to go play tennis! --DRB ======================================================= -> SPORRS: 'Serious Photographers Of Railroad Related Subjects' -> Web Site: http://www.anet-stl.com/acphotog/sporrs/ -> Message © 1998 SPORRS® - All Rights Reserved =======================================================
