Try turning the other bird to look at the lamp like the duck. That will
place the focus clearly on the lamp. Maybe you'll have a different opinion.
Chuck Norcutt
On 12/10/2013 4:48 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> 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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