Yes, it has a slightly green cast to it.
My purpose was to demonstrate to the person in question over on FM's site
that this image certainly didn't need more contrast, if anything less. I
gave it that little bit of punch tint-wise just to jazz it up. Almost any
color would do--toward yellow would work, for example, or blue, and of
course the tobacco/sepia example you sent to me privately is the classic look.
There's a kind of lesson to be learned from this: an image that isn't a
good image when presented in B&W wasn't conceived properly. Of course,
someone will argue the inevitable exception, as there must be, but as a
general rule this holds true.
The inverse of this rule seems to be (within my experience is, and it only
stands to reason) that well-conceived B&W photography accepts color
effortlessly. Why? It already possesses attractive light and form.
Lesson: shoot B&W at least periodically to keep your photographic senses
straight.
Tris
I do like the image better in general in the revised form. At least on my
screen, it has a defininte green cast to the highlights (maybe the shadows
too, but I am slightly red-green colorblind an can miss subtle differences
in those colors in shadows). I find it looks better to me with the green
balanced out.
Moose
Tris Schuler wrote:
Meanwhile, I've posted this image to the same thread. With the shadows
opened up and the use of tint this picture assumes a different character.
I occasionally fool around with B&W tints as the effect can be pleasing
if not overdone. I don't know if it works in this instance or not, but it
certainly changes the mood.
http://home.mindspring.com/~tristanjohn/archivedphotos/Delottswife-shadowsTri-Xcolored.jpg
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