#photography Hi, can you tell me which of these you like most, colour or B&W ?

@Brask @StillIRise1963 I like the color one. There is not exactly the right kind of contrast that I would like for the black and white one, and the color variation makes up for that with the colorized version in my opinion

But that’s just my opinion!

@crazybutable @StillIRise1963 It is all about taste with contrast, too many have too much contrast in their B&W photo images these days.

@Brask @StillIRise1963 agreed. It’s not just about contrast. There is a tonal mapping from colors to shades of grey distinct from contrast but I often find in my own work that when I don’t like how a picture is turning out, I make the mistake of reaching for contrast when the real problem is the tone map is off.

That red is mapping to that grey, and I don’t like that grey and how it relates to the rest of the image as much as I like the red in the way it relates to the rest of its image.

@crazybutable @StillIRise1963
Well I did not have a colour spay in my bag to paint that house. I think the problem in this photo image is the light, had it been a rainy day, I will bet it was a totally other B&W photo image.
I have done a lot of B&W for 46 years, both as a professional and as a hobby photographer, I used the zone system that Ansel Adams "invented".

@Brask @StillIRise1963 you asked which I preferred and to be honest the reason I don’t like that grey is it reminds me of a previous failure I had when developing black and white film, I screwed up the photo chemicals and compressed everything down on the roll to a terrible mid grey and it’s that mid grey

@crazybutable @StillIRise1963 So ou have a negative feeling about one grey tone, I try always to have as many greytones as possible from pure white to pure black, as Ansel Adams did...