Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/03/01

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Subject: [Leica] Walking upon a Stone (in black & white)
From: rcmphoto at yahoo.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 19:28:32 -0800 (PST)
 
--- On Tue, 3/1/11, Quan Tran <quantran101 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Colors or Black and White?
> 
> 
> http://fluxlux.blogspot.com/2011/03/walking-upon-stone-in-black-white.html

If you're going to go with the story in your previous post, I think you need 
the color version.  The stone in the foreground is a different color, and 
the color of the light falling on it makes it a little warmer than the 
others.  This lets it stand out as THE stone of the epiphany.  The shot says 
"it was THIS STONE,RIGHT HERE" and anchors your tale.

In black and white, you have a student exercise in exposure, tone, and 
printing contrast.  You lose the immediate link to your meditation.

FWIW.  


R. Clayton McKee
PhotoJournalist
from somewhere just south of somewhere else...
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