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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: tony Rosca on October 25, 2008, 12:42:33 pm

Title: color or BW
Post by: tony Rosca on October 25, 2008, 12:42:33 pm: Hi guys ,
What you think has more impact , color or BW ? Also having people incorporate in my work it is new for me . What you guys think I am doing ?
Title: color or BW
Post by: wolfnowl on October 25, 2008, 01:02:14 pm: Well, they're both good but very different. The way you've processed the B&W gives it that HDR 'grunge' look to it, which I don't normally like but works here. Couldn't choose a 'favourite'.

Mike.
Title: color or BW
Post by: DarkPenguin on October 25, 2008, 02:08:24 pm: Color.
Title: color or BW
Post by: joergen geerds on October 25, 2008, 05:38:33 pm: Quote from: tony Rosca
Hi guys ,
What you think has more impact , color or BW ? Also having people incorporate in my work it is new for me . What you guys think I am doing ?

color.
the black&white version has a strange HDR-looking background with some strange halo-effect that makes the background very distracting, and it is not so distracting in the color version.
Title: color or BW
Post by: tony Rosca on October 25, 2008, 07:26:42 pm: Quote from: joergen geerds
color.
the black&white version has a strange HDR-looking background with some strange halo-effect that makes the background very distracting, and it is not so distracting in the color version.

In the B&W I did the HDR on background to give it the same importance as the kid. The picture was not intended to be a portrait and when converted to B&W the image focused more on the kid.
I even printed both 11x14 and have them side by side and still I can't choose.
Thanks for the input guys
Title: color or BW
Post by: MGutman on October 25, 2008, 11:22:12 pm: I prefer color for this composition because it has a very "painterly" look.
Title: color or BW
Post by: erictoddjohnson on October 26, 2008, 09:45:15 am: I prefer the color version, but it would be interesting to see the B&W without the HDR on the background.

Eric
Title: color or BW
Post by: KeithR on October 26, 2008, 10:39:52 am: To me they both have good and bad points. Given the subject, the color seems too much, especially the HDR backgound, and the B&W doesn't have the feeling that I think you were tring to get.
I would have gone a bit farther in that I would have made the B&W darker and made in more of a brown tone(more chocolate) and add a touch of a lens filter or gaussian blur, just enough to soften it. I would then drag the color version onto the B&W(now brownish), making it a layer and desaturated it to take some of the color away but leave just enough. I would then paint a mask over the background to reveal the previous background. Just a suggestion
Title: color or BW
Post by: tony Rosca on October 26, 2008, 11:25:59 am: Hi Keith, I have other images from this project were I desaturated the colors . but it worked better because the light was very moody . I think in this case will not be too successful . Somehow even few guys don't like the HDR background it works for me because I want that rough texture around the kid.
I am trying right now to mix the colors and the B&w basically making the shadows sepia and retain the full colors on the image too.
Thanks again guys for your help
Title: color or BW
Post by: popnfresh on October 29, 2008, 12:45:47 pm: I definitely prefer the color version. The wonderful earthen colors add depth and a sense of place that's missing in the B&W version.