Color or B&W?

[MommyOf4Boys]

This is actually a candid shot of my son who was rolling around in the yard and got dizzy LOL

COLOR:

BW:

 

[Tsimiri]

I prefer the B&W although I think that it needs a bit more contrast.

~Fiona

 

[MommyOf4Boys]

I messed around with the black and white one a bit and came up with this...does it look any better or worse? LOL

 

[Dave_D]

Normally I'm a b&w fan, but in this case I like the color version better. A bit more contrast as with the b&w version may help the color version a little. Nice shot btw.

 

[MommyOf4Boys]

Slowly learning how to use this, so here is another attempt to make a more impressionable B&W from this photo...

 

[Dave_D]

Almost looks IR... Cool! Or like he is laying on a shag carpet.

 

[AngelC]

i prefer colour

 

[tmpadmin]

color.

 

[craig]

I prefer the colour version. I have to say that I have never been comfortable with photos of children with their eyes closed.

 

[MommyOf4Boys]

The shot was kind of candid. I got them shut on purpose, because he was being silly from being so dizzy. He was pretending he was passed out from spinning so much.

 

[clarinetJWD]

Color, but it really does look like IR in the B&W one
Are you using curves for the contrast?

 

[Ish]

I also prefer the colored version than in b&w. The b&w needs more contrast...


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[midnitejam]

It's color for me. I find most B&W's to be rather ho-hum and don't usually display camera quality nor the photographer's ability. IMHO.

 

[James H Lyons]

Colour is much better in this situation.

Midnitejam: Refering to your post.

B&W is an amazing feature of photography early on in the years thats all we had. Black and white photography really brings out a photograph in some cases.

Many of my photographs are B&W because i love it!
Adding a lil grain and turning a photo B&W does not by no means reduce the photographers ability.

Take me for example. I use a small digi cam thats all i got a, 3.1 mega pix crap camera it's my sisters, but i use photoshop to make the photograph come out the way it should have when i took the photograph.

See this for instance: http://www.jhlpictures.fpic.co.uk/p25918482.html

I took this with the intention of making it B&W and adding some grain effect to produce the final picture. I didn't take this on the off chance and find it days later and go oh i'll make this amazing.

Some of them are edited, take this for example this for example: http://www.jhlpictures.fpic.co.uk/p24661663.html

No edit has been done!

Photos can be taken in B&W it gives it an intresting feel.

Cheers
James