Colour or B&W

Colour or B&W, which one

  • Colour

    Votes: 18 54.5%

  • B&W

    Votes: 15 45.5%
  • Total voters
    33
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If you were restricted to only one for the rest of your life, which would it be?

For me it'd be B&W. Can't really say why, I take more colour photos, probably because it's what others want to see, but when I look at "great" photos, or even my photos, I almost always prefer B&W versions.
 
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Colour. The world is in colour.
 
B&W. The world should be in black and white.
 
Spot colour? Imagine how much better every moody mono landscape would look with a lovely bunch of red roses in the middle.
 
Pookeyhead said:
That would cause some fun and games at traffic lights :)
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Top = Stop
Bottom = Go.

Thank god my childhood memories are mostly in B&W; lord only knows what some of those jumpers would have looked like in colour! so another vote for B&W for me :P
 
no HDR option :nuts:


only joking :bonk: most is overdone & hideous :gag:
 
Furtim said:
Top = Stop
Bottom = Go.

Thank god my childhood memories are mostly in B&W; lord only knows what some of those jumpers would have looked like in colour! so another vote for B&W for me :P
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Not on British railways. To avoid snow build up on the cowl from blocking the red light, said red light is below the green. If there's enough snow on the ground to block the red light, it'll be too deep for the trains to be running! Of course, these days, if the snow was deep enough to block the higher light, it would be the "wrong type" of snow so trains would be cancelled anyway!
 
Black and white....

Colour is too hard to develop and print at home on film...or at least too hard for my limited skill set.
 
I've never been a fan of B&W, I really can't see the sense of limiting yourself to B&W if you see everything in colour anyway. I had a real problem when I was colourblind and saw red as grey. It was like selective colour in reverse lol.
 
I shot B&W alone for decades in my film days and I find more and more I gravitate towards B&W again now.. I'd happily shoot it.

Pookeyhead said:
That would cause some fun and games at traffic lights :)
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Red - Black

Amber - Grey

Green - White

:D

I wonder how someone who's colour blind see's traffic lights?
 
modchild said:
I've never been a fan of B&W, I really can't see the sense of limiting yourself to B&W if you see everything in colour anyway. I had a real problem when I was colourblind and saw red as grey. It was like selective colour in reverse lol.
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More focus on the texture and contrast.
 
Shoot in colour, and de-saturate for B&W? unless they took options like that away from processing programs, don't see how you could be prevented from doing B&W.

Ok, pedantry aside, I'd choose colour. But I'd miss B&W, it's a nice alternative at times. I think it makes the viewer concentrate more on the actual subject, rather than just the image as a whole, where colour can be distracting.
 
After years and years of really enjoying B&W photography (I've still got about 3 enlargers in the loft which I will never use again!)
I now prefer to look for subjects that have an interesting aspect of colour in them.
 
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