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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Black and White or Color

From time to time I take portrait photos and this picture is of one of my favorite subjects, my daughter. Many years ago when I was learning about photography I had to shoot and develop my own black and white film. That was quite a learning experience for me. These days with a DSLR or photo editing software it make it quite easy to view images in both dimensions.

Below I have posted the color format of the image above. What I would like is your thoughts on these images providing me with which picture you may find more interesting and why. I look forward to reading your responses.
Many Thanks!

3 comments:

  1. I prefer the color photograph. The lighting makes for interesting contrast, especially on her face. While the black and white version looks nice, I think the skin tones in the color photo come through better. Then again, it could just be the monitor I'm looking at it on.

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  2. I'm a huge fan of black and white but I agree with Alan. Between these two the soft facial lighting and color in the second are much more complimentary.

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  3. In the color picture, the glow of the light on her hair accentuates her beautiful hair color and compliments her skin tone in a way that gets lost in the black and white photo.

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