Color or B&W?

DRabbit

Which do you prefer?





Thanks for looking!

RustingInPeace

Black & White

DRabbit wrote:

Which do you prefer?





Thanks for looking!

My vote is B & W

andycat

I like them both.If only one I'd go with color.

mmroden

black and white, but I wonder-- is it possible to recover the clouds behind the smokestack? They look a bit blown to me.

thebigsky

Nice image, I prefer the colour version.

Charlie

Tessa HD

I actually prefer color as well, because of graffiti
Tessa

DRabbit

mmroden - not sure... will have to go back to the original and look...

Thanks for the comments everyone -- I'm not sure which way I'm leaning, because I like them both. When I start PPing an image I'm usually pretty sure which way I want to go, but in this case I like the way it works both in color and b&w. Oh decisions, decisions

Pezpix

Care for a random and totally off the wall thought? Go with Sepia tones and mix all three into a cool looking panorama

Just my two cents

Marc Muench

Pezpix wrote:

Care for a random and totally off the wall thought? Go with Sepia tones and mix all three into a cool looking panorama

Just my two cents

I like this line of thought I was thinkin about keeping the building in color and everything else including the smoke stack in B&W. Soft lit images tend to fall into this conundrum especially those with a strong composition like yours. The only reason for color is to exaggerate a mood with a cast as Pezpix suggested or follow a more recent trend and mask in color where you want to emphasize the subject. Good luck!

USAIR

Color for me too...Like the shot also

Fred

annnna8888

A very strong image. I can't really say one version is definitely better than the other, but if I had to choose, I'd go with the color one.
Try sepia as suggested and post it here for comparison - I bet we would all like to see it.

Ana