RE: Losing color and gaining clarity
As I started to read this post the first few lines made me remember a certain conversation that we had a few months ago. I think it might hold certain relevance here. This is part of the conversion from the post titled as '...And, sometimes you need colour'
Me: ............... I think time and place matters with grey scale images more than with colored. A lot of information that a viewer has to fill it with - capture the heart of that grey scale picture and your viewer can fill it colors that don't even exist. With colored it's what you see is what you get :-)
You: ....................... I am not very attached to borders though. I like colour too. These would be lame in black and white :)
Me: That's what I said about black and white - right time and place. Otherwise they can't compete :-)
You mention how sometime it is important to capture the moment as it were experienced and not as it were just seen. Black and white pictures are actually grey scale (digitally). The amount of information in the picture is much less than a colored one and yet sometimes it will tell you far more about the moment it was taken.
Somehow rundown buildings are the same. They tell you more about them than newly modeled block of concrete ever could. To renovate a building is great idea .........one that that reminds me of an act that somehow is noble and life giving.
I think the B&W is more expressive because it shows a clearer line between the light and shadow, it forces the eye to pay attention and focus. Old buildings are the same, they tell a story of what has come to pass and makes the eye look for signs of what that may have been. the new are all alike, like newborn babies, they all look similar but as they age, personality comes with experience.