I've loved and studied Photography and I am always stuck with the same question...Colour or Black and white? I feel that the colour shows the true beauty of the photograph you're taking while b&w adds a sense of mystery to a photograph and makes it look a little more eerie and unsettling.
Here's a few of my fave photographs in colour and in black and white... tell me what your opinion is?
These photographs where taken whilst on holiday in the Lake district-
Thank you & I know they somewhat remind me of old films. I'll probably never answer the question of which ones i prefer.
Guess i'll have to take more to find out.
Depends on my mood. I like the second photo and the last one in black and white because they look almost timeless. The other photos look better in colour because there is more definition in the photo.
Thank you for your response :) I am inclined to agree that in some photographs the black and white elements can take away from the definition of the photo on some photographs. It's hard to choose which ones i prefer.
Once upon a time, long before you were a twinkle in Dad's eye, all the photos were B&W. It had the advantage of cost, it could be processed at home by the taker.
It still took time to see what you had actually taken a photo of and what it looked like.
When Mum was young, they had moved onto colour slides, where you sent the film away for processing and got the slides back in a small box.
This took a couple of weeks before you could see the results.
In your youth, they have progressed to digital, where you can see what you have taken a photo of, change it, stretch. crop it, delete it and try again.
For a preference, it depends on the desired result which one to use.
I studied Photography in College and we did dark room work which was very interesting and it would take a few days to simply develop a photograph. Just goes to show how easy we have things now, click of a button and you have a photograph instantly and forever.
It's crazy to think how advanced things are now.
The Photo School ( where they trained the Air Force photographers) had a good party at the end of their course, largely paid for by silver.
They would go through hundreds of rolls of film during their course, it is where a lot of the B&W photos came from originally.
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wow .. is the place far, how far
Great photos! I personally prefer black-and-white photography just for the dramatics. Haha!
Thank you & I know they somewhat remind me of old films. I'll probably never answer the question of which ones i prefer.
Guess i'll have to take more to find out.
Depends on my mood. I like the second photo and the last one in black and white because they look almost timeless. The other photos look better in colour because there is more definition in the photo.
Thank you for your response :) I am inclined to agree that in some photographs the black and white elements can take away from the definition of the photo on some photographs. It's hard to choose which ones i prefer.
Once upon a time, long before you were a twinkle in Dad's eye, all the photos were B&W. It had the advantage of cost, it could be processed at home by the taker.
It still took time to see what you had actually taken a photo of and what it looked like.
When Mum was young, they had moved onto colour slides, where you sent the film away for processing and got the slides back in a small box.
This took a couple of weeks before you could see the results.
In your youth, they have progressed to digital, where you can see what you have taken a photo of, change it, stretch. crop it, delete it and try again.
For a preference, it depends on the desired result which one to use.
I studied Photography in College and we did dark room work which was very interesting and it would take a few days to simply develop a photograph. Just goes to show how easy we have things now, click of a button and you have a photograph instantly and forever.
It's crazy to think how advanced things are now.
If you could have emptied the developer tank after a couple of years use you would be surprised how much silver there was in the bottom of the tank.
We where never allowed to empty the developer and maybe that's why :O I bet they had a side business of selling silver when we left haha
The Photo School ( where they trained the Air Force photographers) had a good party at the end of their course, largely paid for by silver.
They would go through hundreds of rolls of film during their course, it is where a lot of the B&W photos came from originally.