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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: batmura on June 30, 2013, 04:34:10 am

Title: Colour or B&W?
Post by: batmura on June 30, 2013, 04:34:10 am

Comments welcome.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3732/9167978351_58b69828db_z.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/batmura/9167978351/)
Staten Island Botanic Garden 2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/batmura/9167978351/) by batmura (http://www.flickr.com/people/batmura/), on Flickr

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Staten Island Botanic Garden (http://www.flickr.com/photos/batmura/9167944435/) by batmura (http://www.flickr.com/people/batmura/), on Flickr

Title: Re: Colour or B&W?
Post by: Walt Roycraft on June 30, 2013, 08:10:06 am

I prefer the B&W. I think this should be shot at a different time of day to have light on the structure, which would improve the photo immensely.

Title: Re: Colour or B&W?
Post by: thierrylegros396 on June 30, 2013, 08:46:28 am

Yes B/W for the same reason !!

Thierry

Title: Re: Colour or B&W?
Post by: DwayneOakes on June 30, 2013, 09:22:59 am

It could go both ways. B/W excels at showing texture and there lots of texture here in the bark and
bricks etc. On the other hand there is a fair amount of color in the first image. I flipped a coin and it came up B/W for me.

Title: Re: Colour or B&W?
Post by: francois on July 01, 2013, 01:57:36 am

B&W for me too! The color version is not spectacular enough and the B&W version has all those textured details…

Title: Re: Colour or B&W?
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on July 01, 2013, 03:29:53 am

I also vote for the b&w, although I think it would look good in colour if the light were more interesting. Either way, a little perspective correction seems to be in order.

Jeremy

Title: Re: Colour or B&W?
Post by: Eric Brody on July 02, 2013, 11:37:28 pm

I'm with the black and white folks but am concerned that there is "conflict" between the two areas of interest, the tree and the house. I believe the house is more important so would try to emphasize it, ? brighter, darken the tree?

Nice image.