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flip1948 Loc: Hamden, CT

I'm sure it was the color on the wood that made you stop and take the shots. With the black and white alone we would have no clue as to why the pics were taken.

alliebess Loc: suburban Philadelphia

Color. Hard to distinguish things in the b & w.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

You really need to dodge and burn for the greyscale image to separate the foreground (log) from the background. Because right now, there is really nothing your eye can focus on to process the composition.

Postprocessing greyscale is really, really hard.

CusopDingle Loc: central CT

While I've seen many expositions of B/W and color renderings of the same scene---often very well done--- it's my opinion that these comparos deny the undeniable fact that an image is more than the intensities of retinal rod and cone stimulation. Form and structure lead to stimulation of other brain areas fed by visual cortex and by themselves contribute to conscious recognition and judgements.

Thus, B/W vs. color imaging are two fundamentally different things and possibly only technically overlapping aspects of photography.

In my opinion, the B/W version has little content. The color version is very interesting and provocative. I doubt that image manipulation on its own can make anything of interest from the B/W version unless you drive it into an abstract realm.....but then it becomes something completely different.