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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Michael West on October 03, 2011, 11:25:03 pm

Title: Animated for Easy Comparison
Post by: Michael West on October 03, 2011, 11:25:03 pm

(http://i55.tinypic.com/2wqu9ht.jpg)

monochromatic or full color?

Title: Re: Animated for Easy Comparison
Post by: wolfnowl on October 04, 2011, 01:49:52 am

While they both have value I think there are a lot of subtle tones in the colour that don't get copied over into gray tones so I'd go with colour for this one.

Mike.

Title: Re: Animated for Easy Comparison
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on October 04, 2011, 03:37:40 am

Quote from: wolfnowl on October 04, 2011, 01:49:52 am

While they both have value I think there are a lot of subtle tones in the colour that don't get copied over into gray tones so I'd go with colour for this one.

It's unusual for me to prefer a colour image when the b&w does work so well but I agree. Something gets lost.

Jeremy

Title: Re: Animated for Easy Comparison
Post by: francois on October 04, 2011, 06:58:06 am

Add me to the color voters. For me, the black and white version doesn't have the character I would expect for a good B/W image. Mike as good points about the tones from the color version not being carried over to the B/W image.

Title: Re: Animated for Easy Comparison
Post by: Eric Myrvaagnes on October 04, 2011, 10:20:40 am

I'm really big on BW these days, but I agree with the other posters: the color wins here.

Title: Re: Animated for Easy Comparison
Post by: popnfresh on October 04, 2011, 11:34:47 am

Ah yes, the famous Inverness shipwreck. I know it well.

I'm biased towards B&W in general, but in this case I think the monochrome tonal values lack visual punch. However, that might be correctable in the conversion process. As it stands now, the color version wins.

Also, this comparison would work better as two separate JPEG images rather than an animated GIF. GIFs are by definition limited to 256 colors, so what we're seeing is a poor approximation of the actual color shot.

Title: Re: Animated for Easy Comparison
Post by: Michael West on October 04, 2011, 12:31:41 pm

I'm keeping the color.

Thank you.

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6225/6211122197_029bc848b6_o.jpg)
 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/41811370@N02/6211122197/)

Title: Re: Animated for Easy Comparison
Post by: popnfresh on October 04, 2011, 02:05:30 pm

I took the liberty of doing a B&W conversion of your color JPEG. Just for giggles.

Title: Re: Animated for Easy Comparison
Post by: Michael West on October 04, 2011, 11:41:33 pm

Quote from: popnfresh on October 04, 2011, 02:05:30 pm

I took the liberty of doing a B&W conversion of your color JPEG. Just for giggles.

Thanks. That neighborhood has some of the strangest homes in N America...including a 600K two car garage on Tomales Bay that was just sold as a studio cottage rep;ete with a small berm between the bay and the "garage".