Many are accustomed to seeing digital images in color.
You might find yourself asking, "This doesn't look great in color, why not convert it to B&W?" It's probably not going to work.
There is a time and a place for B&W. If you can recognize it you can make a better image by deliberately skipping the color version.
Taken with a monochrome camera. Color would have not added anything to these images.
Everything is painted black, white or gray - the reflection in the tinted glass hardly had any color.
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Same location - the small amouht of color in the background would have added nothing.
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There was too much glare to see any colors.
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I agree. There are many situations where black and white works better. The inverse is also true.
Well, just to be contrary, color is the color of the world! 99.5% of the time color does it for me.
Retired CPO wrote:
Well, just to be contrary, color is the color of the world! 99.5% of the time color does it for me.
There are colors your eye cannot see. That particular camera can record infrared tone values when I remove the cut filter from the lens.
selmslie wrote:
There are colors your eye cannot see. That particular camera can record infrared tone values when I remove the cut filter from the lens.
Well aware of the color frequencies that the human eye can't see. In my humble opinion, IR camera photos look even worse than B&W, in all cases that I have seen. Just sayin', but it's likely that I haven't seen them all!
Retired CPO wrote:
Well aware of the color frequencies that the human eye can't see. In my humble opinion, IR camera photos look even worse than B&W, in all cases that I have seen. Just sayin', but it's likely that I haven't seen them all!
We can count our blessings that we are not color blind but getting our cataracts taken care of helps.
kpmac wrote:
I agree. There are many situations where black and white works better. The inverse is also true.
The only thing B&W is better than is none at all.
I agree with your assessment Scotty. These look good in monochrome.
Don
PAR4DCR wrote:
I agree with your assessment Scotty. These look good in monochrome.
Don
Thank you. I am a big fan of B&W since my days with film.
selmslie wrote:
Many are accustomed to seeing digital images in color.
You might find yourself asking, "This doesn't look great in color, why not convert it to B&W?" It's probably not going to work.
There is a time and a place for B&W. If you can recognize it you can make a better image by deliberately skipping the color version.
Taken with a monochrome camera. Color would have not added anything to these images.
I doubt if any of these would look any better in color. Even though I prefer color 100% of the time.
srg wrote:
I doubt if any of these would look any better in color. Even though I prefer color 100% of the time.
Thanks.
B&W May be a lost art. It’s an acquired taste.
selmslie wrote:
Thanks.
B&W May be a lost art. It’s an acquired taste.
It's not an art. As for taste, it's a bad taste.
Doyle Thomas wrote:
http://www.primaryfocusphoto.com/why-color/
Gee, I never heard of color photography!
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