Once again I had a landscape image in Afghanistan that lacked any real color at all. The leftover Jeep carcass had some subtle greens but that is about all. However, after converting to black and white the contrasts in the scene begin to stand out much better. Typically the eye will travel first to the areas of highest contrast, then brightest parts of the scene, followed by warm and cool tones, then to areas of shadow with detail. Once I converted this image I began to see just how that works. After looking at the color version many times, I found myself searching the image much more in the black and white version.Saturday, June 02, 2007
Dealing with lack of color...
Once again I had a landscape image in Afghanistan that lacked any real color at all. The leftover Jeep carcass had some subtle greens but that is about all. However, after converting to black and white the contrasts in the scene begin to stand out much better. Typically the eye will travel first to the areas of highest contrast, then brightest parts of the scene, followed by warm and cool tones, then to areas of shadow with detail. Once I converted this image I began to see just how that works. After looking at the color version many times, I found myself searching the image much more in the black and white version.
