For me the choice of black and white over color is more about mood and expression rather than a need to parse the photos elements. BW is subtle, romantic and laid back. Color is vibrant active and alive. Of course there are degrees of expression within each genre. Punchy, high contrast BW moves toward vibrant while muted color approaches subtle. It’s all about what one wants a photo to say.
Paul > On Mar 16, 2018, at 2:51 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > > > One of the nice things about digital photography is being able to choose > after the fact whether to process a photo as color or black and white. > Technically, I suppose that was also possible with color film, not that it > was often done. > > Sometimes photos work as color, black and white, an some look great for > different reasons in both. > > Since the most effective way to promote discussion on the net is to post > something that people disagree with, I'll mention some of my thoughts on the > subject. > > For me it boils down to contrast, and whether you want to emphasize or > demphasize something. Generally, I want to deemphasize anything in a photo > that doesn't make a significant improvement, and I want to emphasize things > that do look good. Sometimes color differences will make something stand > out. If that's your subject, great, if it's a random bit in the background, > less so. Similarly often things with different colors will have similar > tonality, so converting to black and white can deemphasize them. Likewise, by > tweaking the response to different colors in the conversion you can increase > or decrease the emphasis. > > Thoughts? Expansion? Arguments? > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
