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Re: [OM] IMG: Composing in B&W

Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Composing in B&W
From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:48:38 -0600
Thanks, Paul.  Your thoughts are similar to those expressed by my wife. :-)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 12/10/2013 11:30 AM, Paul Braun wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:37 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> With all of the recent discussion of B&W images on the LUG, I decided to
>> see if changing the EVF and LCD to B&W helped in creating B&W images.
>> With a Summitar from the 1940s on the X-E1, this seemed appropriate.
>>
>> These two images were composed in B&W, then processed from the RAW image
>> and converted to B&W.  I liked the result.  Maybe the B&W finder does
>> improve "seeing" the final image.
>>
>> Mirror:  http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Mirror.jpg.html
>>
>> Lamp:  http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Lamp.jpg.html
>>
>> For me, the mirror one works, the lamp one doesn't.  There's so much
> texture and detail that, for me, color would help define different items
> and points of focus.
>
> But the mirror is very clearly the subject and the tones all work together.


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