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B/W or Color
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mathogre
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B&W. With qualifiers.
I love the warmth of the original; the colors are beautiful! The location has a comfy feel to it in color. I'd love to be there! However, what you did with the b&w has a magic to it. The location is old, and the b&w emphasizes that. Beyond just the b&w however, you have emphasized some things that bring out textures that aren't obvious in the original color. It is mesmerizing. Bravo!
Some ideas...
I've photographed Williamsburg (the Virginia one, not the Brooklyn one) in b&w, more for the "old quality" of the colonial section. That said, one of my last pre-lockdown projects was Manhattan (yes, the real one!) in b&w. The project was called, "Silver Streets", a nod to silver bromide in the b&w film process. Everything was "shot" in b&w in my 5DMkIV so I'd have a sense of what I was getting and knowing what would work. For this project, I shot raw so I had to convert everything to b&w in post, but I'd already had a sense of what I'd taken. It was sort of like the older days of using Polaroids taken before committing an image in a view camera.
Point is that, yeah, many of us have done b&w conversions. They work. Sometimes it's interesting to go b&w the whole way, not allowing yourself to go back to color. The results can be very different and very good. I've shot DC a couple times in b&w, and I never once regretted not shooting in color. I've even shot b&w (sepia, too!) in jpeg where there's no turning back.
Great work! Now feel free to go play and take it further!
I love the warmth of the original; the colors are beautiful! The location has a comfy feel to it in color. I'd love to be there! However, what you did with the b&w has a magic to it. The location is old, and the b&w emphasizes that. Beyond just the b&w however, you have emphasized some things that bring out textures that aren't obvious in the original color. It is mesmerizing. Bravo!
Some ideas...
I've photographed Williamsburg (the Virginia one, not the Brooklyn one) in b&w, more for the "old quality" of the colonial section. That said, one of my last pre-lockdown projects was Manhattan (yes, the real one!) in b&w. The project was called, "Silver Streets", a nod to silver bromide in the b&w film process. Everything was "shot" in b&w in my 5DMkIV so I'd have a sense of what I was getting and knowing what would work. For this project, I shot raw so I had to convert everything to b&w in post, but I'd already had a sense of what I'd taken. It was sort of like the older days of using Polaroids taken before committing an image in a view camera.
Point is that, yeah, many of us have done b&w conversions. They work. Sometimes it's interesting to go b&w the whole way, not allowing yourself to go back to color. The results can be very different and very good. I've shot DC a couple times in b&w, and I never once regretted not shooting in color. I've even shot b&w (sepia, too!) in jpeg where there's no turning back.
Great work! Now feel free to go play and take it further!
