Do you prefer the colour or black and white version of this photo ?

achtungbarry · 20-01-2009 4:24pm #1

Any other comments and critiques are appreciated. Cheers.

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joolsveer · 20-01-2009 4:26pm

I prefer the monochrome version which I think has more atmosphere.

Paulw · 20-01-2009 4:27pm

I prefer the colour. Very warm and glowing photo.

projectmayhem · 20-01-2009 4:28pm

Colour wins IMO. More to look at..

Beef · 20-01-2009 4:28pm

Colour version for me. Only thing I can think of might be a bit of an unsharp mask... Nice shot.

djd80 · 20-01-2009 4:29pm

I much prefer the black and white.....

sasar · 20-01-2009 4:33pm

I like colour version a lot more. I think it would look a bit better if you changed the colour tone in front of the two rocks to match the rest of the water.

homerun_homer · 20-01-2009 4:37pm

Colour

City-Exile · 20-01-2009 4:38pm

I prefer the tones in the colour, but I'd crop out all the front, up to the rocks, because the mucky looking water takes from the rest of the image.

AnimalRights · 20-01-2009 4:38pm

Colour....by a distance.

kjt · 20-01-2009 4:43pm

I'd go for the colour version, close call though. If the WhiteBalance was changed a bit for the rocks in the foreground, it would be the colour hands down!

elven · 20-01-2009 4:47pm

Can i be awkward and say colour, but subdued?

cazze · 20-01-2009 4:47pm

the colour one
i love the warm colours

challengemaster · 20-01-2009 4:50pm

elven wrote: »

Can i be awkward and say colour, but subdued?

No!

Colour ftw

sNarah · 20-01-2009 4:55pm

Colour get's my vote!

mikeanywhere · 20-01-2009 4:56pm

sasar wrote: »

I like colour version a lot more. I think it would look a bit better if you changed the colour tone in front of the two rocks to match the rest of the water.

I like both but the B&W has the edge purely due to the colouring at the front of the rocks in the colour version. Maybe as sasar says (above), change the WB and you may get a better feel to the effect on the rocks.

jaqian · 20-01-2009 7:41pm

Both great photos but the colour is amazing.

livvy · 20-01-2009 7:42pm

colour - its amazing how the same picture can look so different.

oshead · 20-01-2009 8:18pm

There're both very nice. I can't choose.

Dave OS

20-01-2009 9:28pm

Colour in the first one is amazing, lovely photo!

Can you cut out the yellowish water in the front though? It takes away from the rest of the picture I think.

The same area is also a bit distracting for me in teh B&W, but both photos are very nice.

geoffraffe · 21-01-2009 4:20am

Yep, I'll also say colour ftw

MartMax · 21-01-2009 7:56am

Colour FTW!

achtungbarry · 22-01-2009 5:20pm

Thanks for the replies everyone. Much appreciated.

I was going to put one of them in for a competition and couldn't decide. I discovered that the black and white looks quite good on a black background or with a black frame so I may go against opinion and go with that but still undecided.

Here is the black and white on black background.

http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=3212726524&size=large

A few people pointed out the orange area of water at the bottom of the colour version. You may also notice that the rocks have an orange cast. This was due a street lamp behind me that lit the rocks very nicely but gave them an orange cast. At least this is not an issue in the BW.

Anyway, many thanks for the opinions.

thefizz · 22-01-2009 5:51pm

B&W for me. No offence but I don't like the colour at all.

Do you prefer the colour or black and white version of this photo ?

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