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Interested in comments on these:

Preparing the base



Ready for the wood fired oven



Serving the pizzas



and a drop of house red

Bob, I would like to see these as a gritty BW series to see if it suits the mood more.

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Big V wrote:Bob, I would like to see these as a gritty BW series to see if it suits the mood more.

Seemed like a good suggestion given the mixed lighting etc.

Here they are again as suggested.

It always amazes me that one can take a perfectly good colour photo and turn into a black and white masterpiece.

These conversions have a touch of early Fellini and suit admirably the pizza parlour genre.

sirhc55 wrote:It always amazes me that one can take a perfectly good colour photo and turn into a black and white masterpiece.

Interesting, isn't it? In my uninformed opinion colour can be as much a distraction as superfluous image content or busy backgrounds, and take away from the impact of a photograph. Unless colour adds information or mood it is probably best removed, thereby distilling the image to what really matters. Another option would be creatively manipulating the colour to make it say something the natural coloration doesn't. I've done that to the first image in this series with interesting result, but I'm not going to share it

Of this series I like the first one best. Despite its tight confines it has great depth and sets the pizza baker on the right perfectly in scene.

Cheers
Steffen.

Thanks guys and thanks to Big V for spotting the way forward with the images.

Bob, spot on - these look fantstic and make for a stronger set.

I like them too.

Can't say I'm a huge fan of the b&w conversions. If the WB was more spot on with the colour images, it would be a lot better. The reason I say this is that you've isolated the subjects already with your composition so there isn't a lot of background "noise" to distract the viewer from the main subject.

Usually I'm a huge advocate for b&w images as that's what I predominantly shoot nowadays, however these images don't require b&w for the aforementioned reasons.