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Making images in color intentionally

Making images in color intentionally

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Making images in color intentionally

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- In my own work I mostly shoot black and white. And very often when I'm critiquing images or working with students, they'll actually start making fun of me because so often I'll say, "Well, the fix for this image is you need to convert it to black and white." And I think I'm probably, usually right. But anyway, I always have a reason even if I'm wrong. And that reason is that a lot of times color is extra information in an image. It complicates our goal as photographers so often as to just try to simplify the scene, there's too much in it. And sometimes one of the easiest ways to simplify a scene is to strip the color out of it, especially if the scene is composed around strong light and shadow or very strong lines where the point of the photo is graphics and you don't need color to see that. We're in a very carefully composed frame right now. If you'd like to know how it was composed, you can see a detailed take down…

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