Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

I wasn't going to take this any further, but I just watched an old B&W 
movie - Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart & Ingid Bergman), and in between having 
my primitive emotional and sexual instincts stirred by Ms Bergman, I kept 
looking at shots and thinking, if only I could have taken a B&W shot like 
that. So perhaps there is something of the primitive dark ages in me as 
well.

Bob Frost.

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From: "bhhc" <tawow@...>


I think the reason that I love black and white is because it minimizes the 
distraction, though the hurdles one has to jump through to get the 
"previsualisation" correct can be  discouraging at times. Since day one in 
photography I have shot it for my pleasure, sometimes for business.

Yes you are absolutely right about each person seeing it differently (the 
tone or hue that is), so I suppose ultimately, none are right. That is an 
uncomfortable thought . . . it almost presumes that yes indeed, ther are an 
infinite number of universes (one for each person, soul), and none of them 
are the same colour . . . ought to keep Martha Stewart busy for a long, long 
time ;-))

Visually I live in two, actually three extremes. The first is B/W, which as 
I stated is somewhat therapeutic for me, the second is trying to get colour 
film make my client's product look right (it HAS become easier over the 
years), and the third is where I fiddle, experiment, and torture lighting 
and film, so who the hell cares what tone is right?

I think I'll give up here . . . am beginning to sound like I need help 
;-))))))