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mfwild13
12-05-2006, 10:27
Thought I had better start posting more than just bird shots. So here's one of my son, James aged 3, which was taken last week.

Colour or B&W, tighter crop or not?

http://markwild.name/d/549-1/james.jpg

http://markwild.name/d/545-1/james-at-warwick-castle-B_amp_W.jpg
Venomator
12-05-2006, 10:28
Nice catch-lights again Mark ! For me the B & W does not work so well ... lack of good contrast I think ?
Diego Garcia
12-05-2006, 10:29
I think that the b ad w is better. Can you photoshop out the bogie is this is drawing my eye?

Very good picture.
Clint_Black
12-05-2006, 10:39
I think that the b ad w is better. Can you photoshop out the bogie is this is drawing my eye?

Very good picture.

That's the first thing I saw as well. The human mind eh......
DJW
12-05-2006, 10:49
Either works, but *gulp* I think the colours & tones in the colour shot work really well. Amazing how the B&W brings out a completely different feel/emotion to shot.
mfwild13
12-05-2006, 10:59
Either works, but *gulp* I think the colours & tones in the colour shot work really well. Amazing how the B&W brings out a completely different feel/emotion to shot.Falls off chair, barely managing to post bogeyless version on the way :)

http://www.tpfgallery.com/gallery2/d/14037-1/james-at-warwick-castle-B_amp_W---original-colour-%232.jpg
DJW
12-05-2006, 11:12
LOL.... I did notice after double check that you had a different crop on B&W, which made head seem bigger in shot. Preferred colour crop. Anyway had a go myself with Mono.......... People conversions are not my forte but here goes :-

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v178/djw_666/TPF/james.jpg

CM - 40% Red & Green 60% to get tones right.
Applied dual tone of grey
Cropped dark shadow from right.

Phew, prefer the B&W now ;)
CT
12-05-2006, 11:56
http://www.tpfgallery.com/gallery2/d/14053-1/Red1.jpg

Split channels to RGB and used red channel pic. Adjusted for contrast.

I still think the colour version is nice on this one.

Doh... No I didn't split channels... that's the pic I was working on when I broke off to look at your shot Dave. It was a straight Greyscale conversion and adjusted for contrast.
DJW
12-05-2006, 12:52
Sometimes the simplest methods work best hey CT :)