Re: aldrick in bw
- From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@xxxxxxx>
- To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:46:09 -0700
Steve Barbour showed: the POWER of B&W!!!!!
thanks Bob, I just had to share this one....Steve
from today...
22 months old, a little Hopi boy will go home to the
third mesa, on Tuesday
http://www.leica-gallery.net/barbour/image-86552.html<<
Hi Steve mon ami,
It's like "WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
What a great example in the "POWER of B&W!" This young boy has far more
dramatic feeling to it in B&W compared to the picture in colour! Absolutely
illustrates how colours can, will and do distract from content time after
time.
The look on this young lads face and the power of his eyes is amazing
compared to the colour shot of him. If we have doubters in the crowd they
better have another look at the two pictures, colour vs. B&W! And there
isn't any comparison which is the more powerful in message!
It truly is "LIGHT-EYES-CONTENT!"
Well done for showing the difference! That's why I've always said
photographs of war, strife, poverty and the down and out folks have far
greater impact in B&W than colour.
My feeling on this has very much to do with the advent of colour TV where we
as humans see the killing, death and destruction in colour every day and
week of the year on the 6 o'clock news. Therefore we tend to become and have
become immune to it due to "It's only TV!" Sure that's a discussion subject,
but far closer to the truth than many would admit!
But show the same subjects in B&W and it's a whole new ball game. :-(
The Marines in the battle for Hue photographs for example.. Look at those in
colour on the back of the tanks and others during that time in B&W and it
truly is a completely different visual story and feelings created.
If one wishes to tell and make a point with and about human beings, the best
route always is in B&W! Colour only detracts from the impact, good, bad or
ugly.
Unless you're selling fancy holiday locations, pretty clothes and cars! And
of course always with beautiful people and in particular, "beautiful women!"
:-) And if that isn't the case, then why do we see it almost 100% of the
time?
ted
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