I usually agree with you, Moose. This time I don't. Maybe it's the effect of
the quarantine and I am feeling ornery. I much prefer the B&W and the
composition, too.
I'll keep editing and posting since I can't do anything else these days!!
Wash your hands,
Tina
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From: "Moose" <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2020 7:01:16 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMGS: Drying Fish
On 3/12/2020 11:54 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
> PESO:
>
> This is probably a good illustration of how I think differently when
> photographing color and B&W:
>
> More concerned with the light and faces:
>
> https://pbase.com/tinamanley/image/170511656
>
> More concerned with the color and patterns
>
> https://pbase.com/tinamanley/image/170511657
Intellectually, I "get" what you are saying, but not visually. My problem.
Yet, the comparison isn't "fair". I don't know how much is inherent in the
originals and how much is processing, but
there are some big differences in contrast/tonality.
<http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/Others/Manley/B&W08427-Color08447.htm>
The contrast of the B&W shot is much higher than that of the color shot. I've
shown reduced contrast, as well as, as
close as I can come, the contrast level of the color shot, which is really blah
in B&W.
The color shot is low contrast, but high saturation. I've shown how much more
natural, to my eye, lower saturation is.
I've then done a straight desaturation and a PS default B&W conversion, both
low contrast, but pleasant. Finally, the
tone curve of the B&W shot applied to the color conversion to B&W, which has
nice, dramatic "pop".
I realize your processing is aimed at sales. Of course, but it makes for an
unfair comparison of monochrome vs. color.
> I think I prefer the B&W in this case but sometimes not.
Might that be, at least in part, because the composition of the color one is
much better?
The background on the left of the B&W shot is way too busy, distracting my eye,
esp. from the kid on that side. The
color one replaces that with both a less busy background and a longer row of
fish as foreground, concentrating attention
on the subject(s) and tying in beautifully as line with the reaching movement
of the kind on the left.
Discerning Eye Moose
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