Old door - better in B&W or colour?

[timor]

All b&w look way over processed. Colour is good

Thanks Timor. If you would have made this B&W, which would you have gone with, and what would you have done differently?

Bruce, it is not easy question. Colour works for me because of the door. With b&w everything looks a bit washed out here or there. What I mean colour photograph has always support of colour to create a dazzling image. In b&w there is only the texture and spatial feel. First three pics feel rather flat with little of values separation, the fourth b&w has better feel of third dimension thanks to increased contrast, but in the process whatever texture there was in the wall, was lost.. I think this subject at that moment (you took the picture) didn't represent a good b&w subject. Light was diffused too much.

 

[Tight Knot]

All b&w look way over processed. Colour is good

Thanks Timor. If you would have made this B&W, which would you have gone with, and what would you have done differently?

Bruce, it is not easy question. Colour works for me because of the door. With b&w everything looks a bit washed out here or there. What I mean colour photograph has always support of colour to create a dazzling image. In b&w there is only the texture and spatial feel. First three pics feel rather flat with little of values separation, the fourth b&w has better feel of third dimension thanks to increased contrast, but in the process whatever texture there was in the wall, was lost.. I think this subject at that moment (you took the picture) didn't represent a good b&w subject. Light was diffused too much.

Thanks for such detailed C&C Timor. I hear exactly where you're coming from.