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Two takes on the same image. Both appeal to me, but the B & W is ahead by a nose. I'd appreciate your thoughts (even if you think both treatments suck)

#2 without a doubt for me... but i'm a B&W zealot

cheers

I rather the B&W. It goes against everything I keep telling people, but it just seems to show the sky in a different mood.

The colour looks a bit washed out to me, but that may have been what you were going for.

Hows that horizon?

Colour for me,

The image has more appeal and depth. It seems a nice tranquil pic


MATT

It's a bloody big nose mate - B&W by a country mile

Love the B&W. 0.2 degrees CCW and it would be perfect

B&W for sure! the sky is so much more powerful in the black and white!

Looks like the B & W is in front. I also forgot to thank Leigh for his help with the custom OptikVerv B & Wfilter

2nd one is striking.

Very nice indeed.

Cheers

B&W for the win! The sky looks so more dramatic.

Peter,

Colour.

But you need to crop about 75% of the path from the bottom first. Just leave a thin ribbon of concrete along the bottom, and tell me what you think.

Peter, of the shots as posted I prefer the b&w - but if cropping, as Gary suggests, it changes the mood of both shots and the colour comes right back into consideration. Cheers, Mick

B& W here too, but like Gary's crop

Thanks to you all. Here's the recropped colour as per Gary's suggestion:

Peter
There's nobody sitting on the seat? What am I supposed to look at?

Matt. K wrote:Peter
There's nobody sitting on the seat? What am I supposed to look at?

Matt - It's something I thought about too

Peter
I prefer the colour version....and the crop (as Gary suggested) I feel suits the image better. It has more "weight" at the bottom, leaving the expanse of the sky to finish the image nicely.

I'm not sure if it's my LCD monitor at work (which isn't calibrated), but the colour version seems to lack a very slight touch of contrast (IMO)....however this may only be due to my monitor.

Nice work.

Peter,

Thanx, and yes, I think the crop, and in colour, is the winner.

But here is something very interesting for you to ponder.

With the cropped version (I've not check this in the other two) you have the image level in terms of the path at the bottom matching the crop line.

But the horizon - actually a false horizon, as it's the shoreline on the other side of the water - is not level. I am not sure what I would do about this, because while it's not a true horizon, it sill acts as one.

As I said, interesting to ponder.

I would have to say that the B&W treatment emphasises the mood in the shot

Thank you all for your critiques.

Gary - as for your "level" condundrum my answer is this - the finished image sans the problem (done using a feathered selection of that part of the horizon across the whole of the image followed by a skew of just that piece to "lift" the RHS)



Edit: Fixed image to be the recropped version

Peter,

EnergyPolice would be impressed with your solution.

gstark wrote:Peter,

EnergyPolice would be impressed with your solution.

B & W by a mile for me Stubbsy

I'll go the colour version Peter... I think your treatment on the B&W too aggressive for my taste, but I also think the subject matter better suits the nice pastel colours you've presented. I also agree with the new crop but more because it removes some blemishes on the concrete path that were a distraction from the rest of the composition.

Actually, I like the three of them...but the colour cropped one I think is the better one of the two. However, just imagine the cropped one in black and white with someone's back contemplating the weather. So, I think I like the B&W because of the mood it creates.