ch61: color on BW or BW on color?

muddyknees

This one just happens to fit the theme, maybe?
(although I might try adjusting the black point)




These I sought out for the challenge, not sure how sucessfully:
(burnt Manzanita & Madrone)

Flyinggina

Gorgeous photos. I think that there is too much color in the first one but #2 looks spectacular on my screen. I also think that #3 would work, although the blue sky hits you before the feeling of black and white so maybe not.

Virginia

muddyknees

Here's a crop and slightly different treatment of number two:


I'm still trying to "save" number one though, here's a slightly more contrasty and actually more saturated version that nevertheless seems to me to be more to the theme:


I also took another view just a degree counterclockwise that I am tempted to apply the sponge tool to...:


I'll have another shooting opportunity tomorrow and the weekend, but then not much time for feedback..


Thanks for your thoughts.

Flyinggina wrote:

Gorgeous photos. I think that there is too much color in the first one but #2 looks spectacular on my screen. I also think that #3 would work, although the blue sky hits you before the feeling of black and white so maybe not.

Virginia

saurora

I think they are all gorgeous photos, but I think #2 gives the best overall feeling of black and white.

Jeffro

I like #1 and #2, but none of them, IMO, speak B&W to me.

ChrisJ

I think #2 has the most possibility (I like the re-crop)... maybe find a place in the branches with a single leaf (or plant one there). #1 and #3 are nice shots, but have too much color.

muddyknees

ChrisJ wrote:

I think #2 has the most possibility (I like the re-crop)... maybe find a place in the branches with a single leaf (or plant one there). #1 and #3 are nice shots, but have too much color.

I understand this is a no-photoshop challenge (beyond global color correction etc) so I can't really add a colored leaf or even selectively enhance one. Actually, if I was to do anything along those lines I would be selectively desaturatng the background of the Scarlet Fritillary shot.
I did try a more-saturated version of the Manzanita thicket that intensified the bits of green grass and the larger stems, but didn't like the result.

Anyway, I have another chance to visit that area tomorrow and hope to have something more fitting to upload on Sunday last minute.

Thanks for the comments Chris and Jeffro and Saurora.

Gary