Re: San Pablo Atitalan, Guatemala
- From: Ted Grant <tedgrant@xxxxxxx>
- To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:01:28 -0700
Tina Manley showed:
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Subject: San Pablo Atitalan, Guatemala
PAWs:
The family that I stayed with this September lives in San Pablo Atitlan,
Guatemala, one of the villages that was destroyed by landslides from
Hurricane Stan. I've tried to find out what happened to this Tzutujil
family, but have not gotten answers to the e-mails that I've sent to the
agencies that I work with. The extended family lives in a tiny, remote,
village on the shores of the most beautiful lake in the world, surrounded
by volcanoes that slid into the lake. These are just the jpegs that were
recorded automatically along with the RAW photos that I also haven't had
time to process. I hope with everything else that is going on in the world
that you'll remember this family.
http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/guatemala_2005<<<<<<<<
Hi Tina,
I'm just back from Portugal and the UK of the past 4 weeks to find another
of your wonderful Guatemala documentaries on a family in colour & B&W.
After reading the many perspectives of other members and considering my
personal feelings about colour, B&W and people in documentaries, this is a
tough call. As you know I'm a true believer of, "If you photograph people in
colour, you photograph their clothes. But if you photograph them in B&W you
photograph their souls!"
However, what we have here are three things, lighting, colour & content in
that to make a blanket statement one type, colour or B&W, over another is
misleading and it almost requires a print of each side by each, then make
the decision.
It appears some with light creating a greater contrast effect makes the
photograph look better in B&W than colour. Where those with less light
contrast look better in colour, softer and subtle. I feel to blanket convert
to B&W doesn't quite work and only those with a stronger lighting effect
would be best in the conversion.
But as a teaching tool this series produced in print form in both colour and
B&W would make an excellent teaching series in how one visual disipline
works better in one and not the other. Or in some case they're equal, but
this really requires them to be seen side by side.
The bottom line still is the overall impact of the photography and what it
portrays in the lives of these people along with the talent of the
photographer. In this case both work beautifully from content captured to
your moving photography.
I like some right off in B&W while others just have to be left in colour for
greater "feeling!" And that is what colour is about, "feeling."
Look at it this way:
"Colour is emotional. B&W is intellectual!" One you feel, the other makes
you think and see!
ted
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