Color or black-and-white?
Dec 6, 2011 10:29:16 #
PhotoDeb wrote:
Aaargh! I managed to get the same photo twice. I'll try again......
Color one rocks.
Dec 6, 2011 10:30:30 #
Dec 6, 2011 11:25:51 #
I absolutely love the B/W you show in the original. My changes would be so little I would hardly count them, but I would retouch the dot on the subjects nose and put a tiny catch light in the right eye. Congratulations on a marvelous photograph. You treated it perfectly.
jwraw
jwraw
Dec 6, 2011 11:32:23 #
I like both . I separate my portfolio between "Photographs", "Images" "works on paper", among other sections. Both your color and B and W images are excellent as Images or "works on paper". The color image is very magical, the B and W, demure.
Not sure if the images are done for purpose or are happy accidents but my point is it dosent matter. The images are expressions of your creativity.
Not sure if the images are done for purpose or are happy accidents but my point is it dosent matter. The images are expressions of your creativity.
Dec 6, 2011 11:57:12 #
I love both of your portraits as you posted them. B & W my favorite. It's very interesting to see all of the posts of different responses and it helps me to not be so criticle of my own work. I absolutely LOVE some of the technically and mechanically incorrect work (not that yours is!!) but some of my favorite work are "happy accidents" that I have made the best of. Yours are very high impact with what you have done to treat them and it WORKS!! Keep doing it! Get a thick skin and remember, this is an art form also, not just a catalogueing of sterile technically correct history.
Dec 6, 2011 12:01:50 #
Love the High Key, I think the B&W version hits me better although I like them both!
Nice shot
Nice shot
Dec 6, 2011 12:05:15 #
To each his own but the black and white photo, I think, shows some real nice talent. You isolated it beautifully from the original photo. I think I would however, just bring the upper left part of the hat (his right) back just a hair, a smidgen, a teeny bit, one gazillionth of a stop so that you can just barely, with help, with direction pick up the edge of the hat from the background. Even without it I think it's great. If you can pull that back, just the smallest amount I think it will be spectacular but not having some point at which the hat ends pulls your eye, in my opinion, into the open whiteness of the top left of the photo away from the guy. Great photo.
Dec 6, 2011 12:52:14 #
Really like the blk.&white. It's a real portrait, the hat doesn't matter, nothing but the face. Some people don't
appreciate high key and think overexposed. Some equally
wouldn't appreciate low key for anything either.I think
you did a very good job.
appreciate high key and think overexposed. Some equally
wouldn't appreciate low key for anything either.I think
you did a very good job.
Dec 6, 2011 13:30:36 #
photophly wrote:
The black and white is much better,the color version looks to blown out
I prefer the B&W and that is only my opinion.
Dec 6, 2011 14:43:04 #
Jilly Jay
Loc: Columbus Ohio
I think this looks great. There are some areas where it might be a bit too hot & you lose some details but overall Nice Job!
Dec 6, 2011 14:59:56 #
Great examle of high key photography style, one that I love the look of. Really nice soft look.
If there was one thing to change, I would reduce the reaches of the vignette off of the subject a little. I think the vignette gives it too much of one of those "old timey photo booth" pictures. I totally understand personal taste though. Just my 2 cents.
Great look!
If there was one thing to change, I would reduce the reaches of the vignette off of the subject a little. I think the vignette gives it too much of one of those "old timey photo booth" pictures. I totally understand personal taste though. Just my 2 cents.
Great look!
Dec 6, 2011 15:07:13 #
Dec 6, 2011 15:13:17 #
Dec 6, 2011 15:43:06 #
Definately the b/w for my taste. He epitomizes being at peace with himself so beautifully. Not sure how that fits in with where you shot it but so what, it's just great!
Dec 6, 2011 15:49:26 #
JimH wrote:
It's a little too washed out for my tastes, but then again, many people think I'm a total loss..
Question, JimH... wish to pick your brain (what there is left of it after doing that new Lens Flair forum site of yours). Okay, here's the question, aren't most Black & White's actually 256 shades of grey?
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