Close Crop Portrait Of My Daughter. B&W or Color?

[TimothyJinx]

Experimented with some different light setups and backgrounds today. I have some pink seamless I am using for children's photos and I wanted to see how it worked with Steph. I didn't care for it so I made it a b&w. I don't know - which do you guys prefer?

 

[ktan7]

I would go with the black and white but I think you softened her skin too much. I like the colour but the pink at the background looks kinda not fitting. Ease up on the softening of the skin. Make it more natural.

 

[frommrstomommy]

She has beautiful eye color so for this reason I like the color.. but the pink doesn't work for her. lol

 

[Derrel]

I like the B&W image more than the color one. I agree with ktan7 about lowering the amount of skin softening.

 

[sarah_19_nz]

I prefer Black and White.

 

[cenote]

B/W :thumbup:

 

[TimothyJinx]

Thanks for the feedback.

So b&w it is. And no more pink background unless I'm photographing children.

 

[DiskoJoe]

Yeah i dont like the pink. Looks kind of dingy here. I agree with less skin smoothing.

 

[Qveon]

Nope i disagree with most. Looking at the full sized pictures on my laptop, i dont think smoothing was over done. I dont mind the pink either. If i was to do b&w i think i would bring the color back into her eyes.

 

[Granddad]

I checked out the full size version, too. I don't see too much skin softening here, the young lady has near perfect skin, in the full size version you can see the pores and that they haven't been softened.

 

[CherylL]

I like the black and white best. Can you darken the pink the bg? That may help the color version.