Love your work. I'm definitely drawn to your colour photos more than your black and white. That said I understand the struggle. Peace. Keep up the creativity.
Hello Eduardo! This is my experience as a non-photographer spectator: I think color is always more evident than B&W and that is what makes it more easy to understand. When I look at a B&W photo, I try to comprehend the shadow-light relationships, which are not always that clear to me. For example, the B&W photo from your first exercise didn't give me that "light" information as easy as the B&W photo right below. However, I can easily enjoy that purely light-based information from your color photos. I loved them all by the way! Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Hi Eduardo, many thanks for this post. As always great photos, but also very interesting to see your thought process (with examples) around the elements in images that help you decide between the two. It sounds like your decision between colour and black and white is already made before taking the shot. However do you go out with the intention to shoot either in black and white or colour, or do you change over the day depending on the possible scenes that you see?
This is the most poetic and thoughtful take on B&W vs Colour. The way you placed your words, it was magnetic. I am reminded again that our purpose should be the leading factor in deciding the presence of absence of colour spectrum. Btw, dig your B&W bruh!
A very interesting take on this topic and I could not agree more, Eduardo. I've been a keen photographer since turning 13, some 51 years ago. In the mid 1970s (in the UK, at least) B&W print film was 'king' for amateurs. Yes, there were colour print films and, of course, colour slide films such as Kodachrome. However, if you wanted to see results (relatively) quickly, you learned to develop and print your own B&W film. Consequently, B&W became the norm for me. I experimented with colour print and slide film but found that unless the colour palette was the reason for using it, or it didn't distract attention from the subject, I much preferred B&W.
Love your work. I'm definitely drawn to your colour photos more than your black and white. That said I understand the struggle. Peace. Keep up the creativity.
Hello Eduardo! This is my experience as a non-photographer spectator: I think color is always more evident than B&W and that is what makes it more easy to understand. When I look at a B&W photo, I try to comprehend the shadow-light relationships, which are not always that clear to me. For example, the B&W photo from your first exercise didn't give me that "light" information as easy as the B&W photo right below. However, I can easily enjoy that purely light-based information from your color photos. I loved them all by the way! Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Hi Eduardo, many thanks for this post. As always great photos, but also very interesting to see your thought process (with examples) around the elements in images that help you decide between the two. It sounds like your decision between colour and black and white is already made before taking the shot. However do you go out with the intention to shoot either in black and white or colour, or do you change over the day depending on the possible scenes that you see?
Good stuff Mr. Ortiz
This is the most poetic and thoughtful take on B&W vs Colour. The way you placed your words, it was magnetic. I am reminded again that our purpose should be the leading factor in deciding the presence of absence of colour spectrum. Btw, dig your B&W bruh!
Beautiful pictures i follow for the next creations
A very interesting take on this topic and I could not agree more, Eduardo. I've been a keen photographer since turning 13, some 51 years ago. In the mid 1970s (in the UK, at least) B&W print film was 'king' for amateurs. Yes, there were colour print films and, of course, colour slide films such as Kodachrome. However, if you wanted to see results (relatively) quickly, you learned to develop and print your own B&W film. Consequently, B&W became the norm for me. I experimented with colour print and slide film but found that unless the colour palette was the reason for using it, or it didn't distract attention from the subject, I much preferred B&W.
Thoughtful and well said take on B&W vs color. I really enjoyed reading this.