Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/07/13

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Subject: [Leica] Power of B&W?
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Thu Jul 13 15:47:07 2006
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At 8:30 PM +0200 7/13/06, Philippe Orlent wrote:
>>On 13/07/2006, at 17:20, Ted Grant wrote:
>>
>>>Black and white is intellectual. It makes us think!
>>>What think you folks?
>
>Very much in love with B&W, but also thinking that extremely good 
>color work is extremely difficult. More difficult than B&W even.

That's basically my take as well. I feel that in general, except for 
pictures that are about the colour, a very good colour photo has to 
have the colour work synergistically with an underlying good B&W 
photo, ie, one with good tonality and tonal composition.

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