Color ? Black & White?

[shootme]

Not sure which works better color or B&W?, despite the shot being ordinary (or isn't it?), which works for you? Thanks S.

[Didache]

Personally the colour for me, although I am not fond of the HDR type softness of the background (was it HDR?). The mono works too, to an extent - you would have to tone down the carrier bag a little though if you preferred that one as it looks bleached out (you get away with it in colour I think).

Cheers
Mike

[Abiciriderback]

I like the B&W better in that it shows the textures in the man's face more prominently. I think I would crop it a little tighter seems like a lot of dead space on the side of the frame.

Ray Still

[shootme]

Thanks, I used the gaussian blur as I didn't really like the background, too many things causing distraction. Here I've reposted based on your suggestions, thanks Mike thanks Ray. Peter

[GB1]

How about an animated GIF or related that cycles between the black and white and the color? Give it 1/2 to 1 second between cycles.

G

[shootme]

My skills are being tried, I'm not much at post processing. Someone want to have a try?, go for it. Cheers

[PRB]

My favorite is the color shot with the background in clear focus, but I would get rid of the white distracting spots at the top. So far, that's my fave---and I REALLY like this picture!!!

[retroactiv]

Before I got to it I was going to say the perfect thing for this picture is to bring the man entirely out, including his face, and leave the BG B&W. I'd also make his bag in color also. My problem is that this photograph just isn't really moving me I think that if it was maybe a more interesting subject or him doing something interesting.

[GB1]

Not sure this works, blasted conversions to gif's 256 colors and all :idea: ?

Actually, it blinks like a Christmas decoration

[shootme]

That's great, love it thanks, imagine if he had a red coat with a long white beard. Now we're talking Merry Christmas...

[shootme]

Thanks all it's been fun, did a close up of the head and posted it in the portraits forum.

[Scoota]

I love the color shot...the jacket stands out beautifully!

[PRB]

If I could get my shots ON PAPER to blink color and b&w, back and forth, like GB did here --- that would be HOT----

[Seoplanner]

hello there personally i like the black & white pic coz finishing is better in B&W rather than color coz its looking odd & can be identified easily.

[shootme]

Thanks for the feedback, I think I'm with you Seoplanner, though I do like the mix of B&W and yellow coat. S

[Former Best Buy Employee]

I brought this in to Photoshop CS3, did a cleaner selection and then used Lens Blur on the background. This still doesn't look natural in the slightest but at least it doesn't have the while glow around the subject.

[shootme]

Nice, thanks for that. I'm using the trial version of Nikon Capture NX2, would love to have Photoshop and will work on that for Christmas - CS4 extended. But still learning how to use post processing software, not so easy. Cheers S.

[Former Best Buy Employee]

Photoshop has post processing software, I love editing raw image files from my D2x but I am interested to see how well my new G10 will do this Friday. Also I would suggest finding CS3 for a low cost because I am currently trying to get CS4 not to crash constantly.

[via]

you can stay colored! black and white is fine on the background.

[Photo-John]

I really don't like the software blur. Post-processing blur almost always jumps out at me as exactly that. For me, it's in-camera, large aperture shallow depth-of-field, or nothing. In this case, I can't really see the main subject because I'm so distracted by the background.

[shootme]

PJ, I tend to agree, while I like to use blur to try and make a subject pop in this example there is too much of it. What I probably need to do is spend more time trying to set up the picture and think of the effects I'd like to see as an outcome. Thanks, S