On 3/16/2018 12:51 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
One of the nice things about digital photography is being able to choose
after the fact whether to process a photo as color or black and white.
Technically, I suppose that was also possible with color film, not that
it was often done.
Sometimes photos work as color, black and white, an some look great for
different reasons in both.
Since the most effective way to promote discussion on the net is to post
something that people disagree with, I'll mention some of my thoughts on
the subject.
For me it boils down to contrast, and whether you want to emphasize or
demphasize something. Generally, I want to deemphasize anything in a
photo that doesn't make a significant improvement, and I want to
emphasize things that do look good. Sometimes color differences will
make something stand out. If that's your subject, great, if it's a
random bit in the background, less so. Similarly often things with
different colors will have similar tonality, so converting to black and
white can deemphasize them. Likewise, by tweaking the response to
different colors in the conversion you can increase or decrease the
emphasis.
Thoughts? Expansion? Arguments?
To me, colour generally works for weaker compositions. It's sort of the
photographic equivalent of baffle them with bullshit.
Strong composition will work in either colour or B&W, weaker composition
may work in colour because of the colour (yer average sunset, for
example), but will likely not succeed in B&W.
bill
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