Buffalo Bay Sunset

invisible · Jul 22, 2012

This was shot yesterday in Buffalo Bay, close to the triple border among Manitoba, Ontario and Minnesota. I like both the colour and the B&W versions, so here they are.

Thanks for viewing...

Nette · Jul 22, 2012

This is amazing... Looks great in both!!!

LaFoto · Jul 23, 2012

Good photo as is (which does NOT surprise me!

) - but once I had seen the lovely purple in the sky, I instantly missed it (much) in the b&w version. Maybe you ought to have presented them the other way round?

timor · Jul 23, 2012

Are you unsure which version represents yor initial visualization ? You should pick one you like better and gave it to us. I would pick colour as the sky is not dramatic enough and is not making much of an impact in b&w. It is too white and competes with the water leaving the horizon and clouds looking like a dirty smudge. In your conversion the reddish, pink and blue values on the sky are represented by the same density in b&w, actually lack of any density, just white, taking away from the texture of the sky. However the fore plan in b&w looks so much better, then in colour with much more easily visible detail and real 3D effect. In the colour version front is simply too dark.
In any case that spot has a great potential and I would visitit it often (if it's not too far).

JoshuaSimPhotography · Jul 23, 2012

Colour all the way! It adds so much more mood! ANd it compliments the glass water and slow shutter speed

Frequency · Jul 23, 2012

ominous beauty...both are wonderful. Timor has given an excellent comparing study

jfrabat · Jul 23, 2012

I love the color version...

spacefuzz · Jul 23, 2012

I concur, needs to be color

invisible · Jul 23, 2012

LaFoto said:
Good photo as is (which does NOT surprise me! ) - but once I had seen the lovely purple in the sky, I instantly missed it (much) in the b&w version. Maybe you ought to have presented them the other way round?

Or in separate threads

timor said:
Are you unsure which version represents yor initial visualization ?

LOL, that felt like an uppercut

I'm a B&W person, but when I'm shooting a sunset scene I'm always thinking in colour. Problem is, when I get home and review the images, sometimes I find that I like the shapes so much that I feel like trying to lose what drove me to shoot the scene in the first place (the colour). While my initial visualization is represented by #1, I think that the B&W is a much, much better image. It does have to be viewed on a black background to be fully appreciated though... something not available here at TPF.

Thanks all for the feedback!