James (B&W or Colour)

[mfwild13]

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?

 

[Venomator]

Nice catch-lights again Mark ! For me the B & W does not work so well ... lack of good contrast I think ?

 

[Diego Garcia]

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]

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]

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]

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

 

[DJW]

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 :-

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]

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]

Sometimes the simplest methods work best hey CT