Machine shop

Sabrina Henry posted yesterday on her “Chronicles of Learning Photography” a very interesting thoughts on black and white images, and why black and white images are in a sene natural to her. I myself was photographing a bleak and white film rangefinder in my early photography days, and was rised in a sense when the color photography just entered the scene. And yet, the color is what draws me to many scenes, I react to contrasting colors quicker then to interesting patterns or compositional lines. The black and white is afterthought, as Sabrina mentioned- if the color is not adding to the image, get rid of it. And this is what happened with the image in today’s post. I was working on it yesterday morning, and when I finished tone mapping, I was not happy with it at all. After reading Sabrina’s post, I knew it needs to get converted into black and white. This is the image, where color is in a way. Yes, the rust has a very pleasing tone, but it contrasts with te blue windows, which in fact take away from the important parts of the photograph. And the grain, coming from bracketed shots in not really well lit looks more natural in black and white, and is only a nuisance in color picture.