Colour or B&W?

[GREG3f]

Which do you prefer the colour or the black and white?

[johnb3]

I always like color, but this portrait lends itself to B&W. I think the brow line and eyes are the focal point. There seems to be more competion for our attention in the color version. I can rest my eyes on the focal point in the B&W version.

[chicagojohn]

I prefer the Black and White one. I might like the color one better if it didn't seem so saturated on my monitor -- could just be my monitor.

[commongrackle]

I like the colour, simply for the detail in the face that is lost in the BW version. The BW version lacks depth.

[williamawalker]

I'd go with the color shot. I feel that the B&W version loses some of the details of the face. If the eye and the eyebrow are the focal points, I tend to look away from that in the B&W version.

Both are nice though!