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08/24/2007 09:25:21 PM · #26 |
Oh and it's about time b/w gets called out for cheating. Duotones and the like are color images not b/w. :P
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08/24/2007 09:30:44 PM · #27 |
For me B&W is timeless. And I agree with several of the posts above saying that B&W allows you to focus on light and texture without the distraction of color. Here's one of my comparisions. I was fortunate to have the B&W do very well in a challenge. I don't think the color version would have done as well.
 
In this case I think the sky is much more dramatic in the B&W
BTW... I don't think this is true for all shots. Color rules in many cases but B&W will always have a place. |
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08/24/2007 09:39:23 PM · #28 |
I don't do B&W very often, and it's not really a favorite medium of mine either, but, that said, sometimes it's the *only* way to go.
I just got an all-time PB B&W in the speed Free Study with a shot that I feel would have been past mediocre in color.
I was so pleased with this I really didn't much care how it came out in the challenge, but it did very well relative to my usual work.
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08/24/2007 09:44:20 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by DJWoodward:
For me B&W is timeless. And I agree with several of the posts above saying that B&W allows you to focus on light and texture without the distraction of color. Here's one of my comparisions. I was fortunate to have the B&W do very well in a challenge. I don't think the color version would have done as well.
In this case I think the sky is much more dramatic in the B&W
BTW... I don't think this is true for all shots. Color rules in many cases but B&W will always have a place. |
I actually like the color one better.
Sorry......8>)
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08/24/2007 09:48:29 PM · #30 |
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
I actually like the color one better.
Sorry......8>) |
Ha! I knew that would happen. I still doubt it would have done as well as the B&W did. To each their own :) |
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08/24/2007 09:49:01 PM · #31 |
Frankly, I prefer B/W in most cases. Definitely in movies....while color has it's place and is perfect for many genre of moving pictures, give me a good B/W any day. For a brief spell I worked in a video store and people would ask for recommendations and I just could not believe it when someone would flat out refuse to rent a video based soley on its being B/W. Just killed me.....colorization of classic films was an abomination. Oh and:
Color:  B/W: 
Message edited by author 2007-08-24 22:01:56. |
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08/24/2007 10:51:31 PM · #32 |
To paraphrase  JMSetzler Why would you print in B/W unless the color is necessary in the shot...
Message edited by author 2007-08-24 22:52:12.
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08/24/2007 10:59:43 PM · #33 |
| Nice examples from DJWoodward and banmorn. Definitely prefer the BW of the former: the colour in the sky/clouds and tree definitely distract one from the bare bones drama. Again the BW anemone has more definition, but the colour in its shadings and richness are part of the attraction of the anemone. |
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08/24/2007 11:11:18 PM · #34 |
| I find the lack of color allows you to emphasize shapes and patterns and subtleties in an image that the brain otherwise tends to overlook. I love black and white photography, I just wish I were better at producing it. |
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08/24/2007 11:18:59 PM · #35 |
Originally posted by yanko:
Oh and it's about time b/w gets called out for cheating. Duotones and the like are color images not b/w. :P |
actually, they're much closer to toned black anad white prints. sepia, selinium, platinum, gold, all of these are used to tone prints, and produce colours very, very similar to duotoning. they are techincally colour images on your monitor, but should be printed with sepia etc. toned inks to get the true effect. not rgb, or cmyk inks.
Originally posted by posthumous:
None of the arts can survive that dependent clause.
Why write in sentences, when humans speak in fragmented phrases?
Why take photographs, when humans see things three dimensionally with two eyes? You should use a stereopticon.
Why make movies or write stories, when life is a streaming, plotless experience?
Why play music on a scale, when humans can hear all the noise between notes? |
don nails it again.
Message edited by author 2007-08-24 23:19:46.
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