Thread: Color or B & W

Lightroom offers the possibility to make virtual copies, such that it is possible to preserve your initial developed version. Sometimes one has to play around with a photograph in order to see what's best. Both of your versions are very tough and I do not associate that with "more dream like than real". I just want to understand.

Thanks, olli! I have tried in the past but found it too painstaking..however I probably didn't really know what I was doing. Will give that video a look see, too!

Which version do you prefer?


Decay by pictor / strolling shooter, on Flickr


Decay by pictor / strolling shooter, on Flickr

For me, Christian, it's the color one because the delicate nature of the flowers shows up better and the subtle shades of color look so beautiful together. To my eyes, the beauty even with decay is much clearer in color and hits home with me. Lovely image.

Colour. Because it more clearly shows the process of transition towards decay. Perhaps I would desaturate the greens a little to reduce the distraction of the leaves in the background.

I like the B&W. The color seems to show the loss of life as it's slipping away. I am drawn to the living parts as it interferes with the emotional impact.
The B&W shows the finality of death with no illusion or interference.

X100. LR3 only

DSC02302 by heather_t_vet, on Flickr

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DSC02302 - Version 2 by heather_t_vet, on Flickr

If I am worth anything later, then I am worth something also now, for wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning"
Vincent Van Gogh, written less than a mile from this photo.

colour! and nice quote

Oops, I've missed a couple here!

Malcolm, for your two of the passage way, although I do really like the greens and the detail of the tree's leaves in your color version, I believe the lighting as a whole makes your B&W version much more powerful - especially in regards to the dramatic sky and that wonderful highlighted area of the bare treetop and the wall on the upper right - so B&W is it for me for theses two.

Heather, both are very pretty but it's hands down for your color version for me - without a doubt! The delicate tones of emphasize the ephemeral qualities of these blades of grass - or wheat - and their beauty really does shine through so well in color. The range of blues in the background, work beautifully as the backdrop and allow the light to reflect more in color, in my opinion. I think that the color image has much more depth and feeling and show's life and light! That's my view, anyway.

What do you both think? Which did you prefer or lean to and why?

P.S. I agree with Bart - a very good quote, Heather.