Colour vs Black and white

Here are some images I took at Charles town last week - I have taken my favourite images and edited them from colour into black and white but kept both images to see the comparison. I feel that the images I have take all look nicer and more sophisticated in black and white compared to colour. I think that all of these images also look quite nostalgic in black and white - I edited them so the shadows were increased and added grain onto the images to give them a more 'film' effect. 

In these images, as you can see, there is a lot of negative space - however when you look at both of these images the colour in them changes the whole concept of the image. The black and white image looks more deep and meaningful whereas the coloured image looks more bright and just like a normal image when you look at it. 

Trebarwith Strand

Contact Sheets

Contact sheets - Newquay

Black and white photograph research

Looking into black and white street photography - i'd like to do something similar to the layout of these images and how they look. 

Moodboard

Colour/black and white photography

Colour in photography is definitely one of the most important factors in an image - it can create different feelings, emotions and mood within an image. As you can see on these two colour charts, every different colour has a different emotion or feeling behind it. For example, the colour red can have many different emotions or feelings which are both good and bad, it can be shown as an angry colour but it can also be seen as a colour for love, passion and courage. So if I took all of these colours away from my images, how would that make me feel? For me I feel that black and white images can have a deeper meaning behind it - especially with darker images. It is seen as a more superior art form as black and white images bring out the shadow and highlight more in an image so people are instantly drawn to it. Black and white photography doesn't give off a distinct feeling but it can make people feel subdued and pensive towards the image. As photography started off in black and white, it is a popular way to edit images and people are constantly using it. I usually prefer to have my images in black and white because I feel they look more sharp and professional this way, however, I use colour images a lot as well because sometimes the images don't look right in black and white - it takes away all of the feeling in some images and overall just isn't a good image - so you always need that correct, spot on image to use black and white. Black and white portraits often let the audience see the subjects face without distraction, these images tend to appear more 'timeless' than a coloured image. The tones in black and white images range from pure black to pure white with a different range of greys in between. With black and white images you can have a high or low contrast - a low contrast being an image that isn't definite black and white but is the grey tones in between and a high contrast will be a really strong black and white tones, which will define shadows and highlights in the image.

A change of heart

So today I woke up and decided I wanted to change my idea for my fmp - not completely - but I feel like this will be a better option for me, rather than doing the colour in architecture - I'd prefer to take photo's of people. I've decided that I'd like to stick to negative space and minimalism, however, I'd like to look more into how black and white/ colour can change the feeling of an image but using people instead. In my blog work I will compare a colour image and a black and white image and talk about how both images are the same, yet when colour is taken away or added, creates a whole new image. Then for my final images I will go out and shoot in monochrome. I'd like to take quite a candid approach to these images as I feel these sort of images look nicer.

Thomas Demand

I like this image because of the composition; the lines and colour in the image have a way of creating the photo - if the colour of the tiles were red it would create a completely different image - this is because the blue creates a cool and calm vibe, however if it was red it would feel more angry or passion because that is what those colours are associated with. As for the lines in the image - the way the image is shot is quite clever - you have the lines of the tiles behind the mirror and the reflection of the other side of the bathroom with the tiles in as well. I also think the fact that it is a square image  is good as well because if it wasn't then the image wouldn't be as effective.

Coloured Lighting

Today we bought a mood light which changes colour and obviously I saw the opportunity to take some images using the different coloured lights. I decided to do this as my project is based around colour (coloured architecture/ minimalism) Some of these images turned out okay, however they're not the greatest images I have. I messed around with the settings by changing the iso, aperture and shutter speed but the images came out quite dark and when editing, if I tried to make the image brighter, then the image would come out grainy.