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B&W or colour?

Postby Justin on Thu Oct 05, 2006 12:53 am

I like this photo but have put some work into it as it hasn't quite come off for me yet.

But two versions, B&W or colour... opinion?


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Note the background has been de-saturated a little...
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Postby iposiniditos on Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:00 am

I prefer the colour version. In my oppinion, in b&w it's difficult to see the subject because of it's highlights. In colour version the purple of the subject in contrast with the green of the background makes the subject shine.

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Postby Rainey on Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:26 am

Colour for sure! I actually quite like that photo, would make a good wallpaper! 8)
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Postby stubbsy on Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:06 am

Justin

Definitely the colour version for reasons which iposiniditos (in very good english BTW) has covered well. I'd also crop most of the RHS and turn this into a portrait crop. The RHS is very distracting for me and adds nothing to the image.
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Postby gstark on Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:13 am

What Peter said.
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Postby sirhc55 on Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:24 am

Flowers must always be in colour, unless, of course, the flower is black and white :wink:
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Postby Glen on Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:33 am

Justin, colour for me, but I must remark on the lovely soft pastel quality you have to this image. Beautiful
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Postby Justin on Thu Oct 05, 2006 10:41 am

thanks all!

The softness is due to the 300mm lens at f4 plus I upped it a little with a ~7 pixel gaussian blur in PS, to help seperate the flower some more from the background.

I'll try the portrait crop.

If you want this as a wallpaper, grab this -

http://justin.zenfolio.com/img/p736077081.jpg

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Postby Grev on Thu Oct 05, 2006 1:39 pm

Maybe duotone or sepia?
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