urban ku # 184 ~ say what?
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 07:06PM 
Best Margarita, NYC - click to embiggenI am posting this entry a bit early because I'll be driving home most of tomorrow and I wanted to float this topic so you can think about it for a bit.
On Friday AM, I'll post an entry about this bit of nonsense. This piece seems to be an excellent example of ignorance regarding medium specificity - in this case, the BW medium and the color medium, photography division.
The notion that one can/should determine if a color photograph is good by converting it to BW, then judging if it is 'good' as a BW photograph, and, if it is not good as a BW photograph, it certainly can not be good as a color photograph, is, quite simply, rather daft.
It seems to me to be like trying to determine if a blues riff is good by judging it as played on bagpipes.
Reader Comments (2)
You make a convincing point, not by what you write but by the photo. These are some fine and well balanced out colours bringing the street scene to life!
Best regards, Christoph
I really love this shot, the people and cars going different ways, the colors just a great shot.