Weekly Poll: Colour or B&W Portraits

[gmarques]

Color.

Life is a mix of colors.

[Saralonde]

Black and white. Why? The drama, the grit, the simplicity that b&w can give you. I love the play of light and shadow, how not having color to distract you lets you see things you didn't know were there. Black and white breaks the composition down to it's basic forms. You have to get the composition right for it to stand there without the color. I also think it's interesting that you can look at a black and white shot and still "see" the color in it. I can almost see the yellow centers on my daisies!


And a portrait:

[Nicole]

I'm going to admit that I was watching a horrible show.... America's Most Smartest Model... and in any case, they were deciding between B&W and colour pictures and one of the people said that they were happy the models picked the colour one since they considered it harder to take a good colour photo compared to a good B&W.

Mind you, I still like B&W, but I thought they may have a point considering the difficulty in getting good skin tones (heck, there are even entire books devoted to properly photographing skin!)