Trail to the Beach - Help Me Select: Photographed at the West End of Jones Beach State Park on a cold January with late afternoon light. This trail leads to the Jones Inlet. Which...

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

Photographed at the West End of Jones Beach State Park on a cold January with late afternoon light. This trail leads to the Jones Inlet.

Which photograph do you prefer, color or monochrome? Or neither.

Additional critique, suggestions or comments welcomed. Thanks 8-)

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Color

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scootersurfs Loc: Buckeye, Az

Bmac wrote:

Photographed at the West End of Jones Beach State Park on a cold January with late afternoon light. This trail leads to the Jones Inlet.

Which photograph do you prefer, color or monochrome? Or neither.

Additional critique, suggestions or comments welcomed. Thanks 8-)

Settings: ISO 80, 25mm, f/4, 1/320 of a second.

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The monochrome hit me like a ton of bricks...Almost somewhat infrared looking, and awesome. Both good, but #2 does it for me!

angler Loc: StHelens England

Monochrome for me Bmac,excellent shot.

ebrunner Loc: New Jersey Shore

No. 2 is certainly more dramatic; but you love that lovely golden light. I'm sorry, but I really don't have a preference. Drama goes to two. One is, however, very lovely light and color. Lotta help I am.

Ronbo Loc: Okanagan falls BC. Canada

ebrunner wrote:

No. 2 is certainly more dramatic; but you love that lovely golden light. I'm sorry, but I really don't have a preference. Drama goes to two. One is, however, very lovely light and color. Lotta help I am.

Like he said Bmac But he forgot :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

greymule Loc: Colorado

Bmac wrote:

Photographed at the West End of Jones Beach State Park on a cold January with late afternoon light. This trail leads to the Jones Inlet.

Which photograph do you prefer, color or monochrome? Or neither.

Additional critique, suggestions or comments welcomed. Thanks 8-)

Settings: ISO 80, 25mm, f/4, 1/320 of a second.

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Both

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Bob Yankle Loc: Burlington, NC

Color - hands down.

waykee7 Loc: Cortez, Colorado

Bob Yankle wrote:

Color - hands down.

I'm in agreement with Bob. The color image is stronger.

I have a personal bias, probably shared by very few, about toning. I'm not a fan of toning, and maybe it's just my own experience, that if a b&w of mine isn't strong enough to stand on its own, toning it never seems to make it better. The monochrome image of yours IS strong, and I think the toning detracts from it.
Wayne Keene
Cortez, CO

Daverx Loc: Southen Indiana

Both photos are dramatic. It would be like choosing which of my two children that I love the most. Great images.

dstalnaker Loc: Round Rock, Tx

I think both are striking images. The color makes me think of a beautiful spring day, where the B&W looks like an ominous stormy day.

Dee Dee

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

scootersurfs wrote:

The monochrome hit me like a ton of bricks...Almost somewhat infrared looking, and awesome. Both good, but #2 does it for me!

Thanks ScooterSurfs for the input. I though the monochrome looked a bit infrared too. 8-)

Bmac Loc: Long Island, NY

angler wrote:

Monochrome for me Bmac,excellent shot.

Thanks Jim, appreciate you commenting. 8-)

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Bmac wrote:

Photographed at the West End of Jones Beach State Park on a cold January with late afternoon light. This trail leads to the Jones Inlet.

Which photograph do you prefer, color or monochrome? Or neither.

Additional critique, suggestions or comments welcomed. Thanks 8-)

Settings: ISO 80, 25mm, f/4, 1/320 of a second.

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Color...
What a glorious stand of orange-yellow Phragmites at the tag-end of Autumn...might see snow tonight! wonderfully evocative of the L.I. shore.

But the B&W grabs me and screams to be hung on my wall! It speaks to the incredible perseverance of that diabolically ... and successfully self-serving and, some would claim, malignantly persistant and resolutely spreading organism. There is an awesomely malevolent character to that monochome scene that grabs and holds the attention ...your toning, and your treatment of that sky support the mood described. I'll bet that's the image that took over your mind after a brief appreciation of autumnal (winter?) beauty had passed...am I right?

Print 'em both, and both will sell, but the monochrome will outsell the color, hands down!

I'll bet your agent and your galleries will bear me out.

Dave in SD

photophile Loc: Lakewood, Ohio, USA

Bmac wrote:

Photographed at the West End of Jones Beach State Park on a cold January with late afternoon light. This trail leads to the Jones Inlet.

Which photograph do you prefer, color or monochrome? Or neither.

Additional critique, suggestions or comments welcomed. Thanks 8-)

Settings: ISO 80, 25mm, f/4, 1/320 of a second.

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The details of the stalks are emphasized better in 2.

angela k Loc: Long Island

Bmac wrote:

Photographed at the West End of Jones Beach State Park on a cold January with late afternoon light. This trail leads to the Jones Inlet.

Which photograph do you prefer, color or monochrome? Or neither.

Additional critique, suggestions or comments welcomed. Thanks 8-)

Settings: ISO 80, 25mm, f/4, 1/320 of a second.

Both beautiful, but I think one is more alive!

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