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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: MoreOrLess on September 05, 2013, 05:27:59 pm

Title: Misty Morning - Colour vs Monochrome
Post by: MoreOrLess on September 05, 2013, 05:27:59 pm: Anyone have an opinon on which works best?

(http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/4272/lfog.jpg)

(http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/5686/6u23.jpg)
Title: Re: Misty Morning - Colour vs Monochrome
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on September 05, 2013, 05:33:39 pm: Both are very nice. You might want to apply an orange or red filter in b&w conversion to get the blue part of the sky darker, creating more tonal differentiation and 3-D depth.
Title: Re: Misty Morning - Colour vs Monochrome
Post by: RSL on September 05, 2013, 06:29:52 pm: It seems to me that with a gentle, foggy scene like this, color always is better than B&W.

I like the shot.
Title: Re: Misty Morning - Colour vs Monochrome
Post by: WalterEG on September 05, 2013, 07:23:50 pm: The time to decide is before you take the snap and set the scene accordingly.

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Title: Re: Misty Morning - Colour vs Monochrome
Post by: MoreOrLess on September 05, 2013, 07:42:34 pm: Quote from: WalterEG on September 05, 2013, 07:23:50 pm
The time to decide is before you take the snap and set the scene accordingly.

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I did actually take it with the intension of the colour shot, pushed the contrast on the lead tree and the foreground a little to play up the mist but found anymore took away from the realism. Favouring the greens in a B&W conversion plays up the dropoff in contrast a bit more.