| Damien Demolder |
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| 03/06/2008 08:06 |
New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W?
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This week's question coincides with our black and white special issue. We want to know whether the picture you judge to be the best you have ever taken is in colour or black and white. Simple as that!
...and why not post a 300 pixel version of it below so we can all see..
Go to the Home Page to vote.
Thanks for playing.
damien
| beejaybee |
| (Marvin) |
| 03/06/2008 08:27 |
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Hmmm, not sure how to characterise mine ... it was taken on colour reversal film, but 90% of the area is one colour with a small patch of a contrasting colour. And I desaturated it heavily. The effect is more of a toned monochrome print than a colour image.
| Hotblack |
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| 03/06/2008 08:42 |
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I voted colour. Certainly the pictures that have done well for me so far are colour shots.
| bagpuss |
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| 03/06/2008 10:07 |
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Not sure if this is my best photograph, but it's one of my favourites:
And of course it's black and white.
| Clodhopper |
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| 03/06/2008 11:44 |
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Ummm... Well, it started off as colour...
There doesn't seem to be an option for "could be either really"
| DaveS |
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| 03/06/2008 12:04 |
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Monochrome definatly, and shot in mono on film. Sorry, don't have a scanner so can't post an image.
Dave
| El Sid |
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| 03/06/2008 12:13 |
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I think I'd have to say most of my better pictures are in colour. Here's a particular favourite...
(ClickPic for bigger)
| Benchista |
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| 03/06/2008 13:09 |
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Define "best".
| daft_biker |
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| 03/06/2008 13:15 |
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Quote:
I think I'd have to say most of my better pictures are in colour. Here's a particular favourite...
That's one that has stuck in my mind too
| daft_biker |
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| 03/06/2008 13:27 |
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Colour for me as I do very little B&W.
Dunno if it's my best shot or even wheat a best shot is (will I know it when I see it?) but it's one of my faves just now anyway:
(Megabunus diadema)
| Mojo_66 |
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| 03/06/2008 13:58 |
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Still to take mine yet.
| OneTen |
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| 03/06/2008 14:02 |
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Quote:
Still to take mine yet.
^^^WSS
| parisian |
| (Over the hill and far away...) |
| 03/06/2008 16:10 |
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Quite. 'Best' in what context?
Most successful in competition?
Best seller?
Most applause from family
Warm glow whenever you see it?
Each of these would be different shots
| huwevans |
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| 03/06/2008 17:09 |
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Neatly side-stepping all the issues about defining 'best', for me there's simply no doubt - it's a monochrome image.
Mayfield Park, Sheffield, 1988ish. Ilford FP4
I've never sold a single copy of it. It's technically flawed - without a tripod I couldn't hold the background clearly enough when focussing on the nearest bench (where I wanted the sharpest plane to be) at the slowest speed I could safely shoot at, and so I focussed further into the scene that I would have wanted. I have to print the neg on a harder grade than is ideal just to fool the eye into thinking the whole thing is sharper than it really is. But with a fair bit of judicious dodging and burning, the end result is the only picture I've ever taken which everyone I've ever show it to seems to like. Every other picture I show there will be some who don't like it, but about this one there never seems to be any disagreement. So in those terms, I consider it to be my 'best'. It's certainly my own personal favourite.
| Scphoto |
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| 03/06/2008 19:18 |
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Probably Colour for me, in fact one of my first attempts with Medium Format.
Click for 600x600 version
| Dave_Cox |
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| 03/06/2008 19:23 |
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Definitely colour
| the_sun_king |
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| 03/06/2008 19:52 |
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my favourite photo changes on a weekly basis... and like someone already said, i've yet to take my best shot...
but this is my current favourite
| fabs |
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| 04/06/2008 08:25 |
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Definitely colour, but then again, I still haven't quite managed to crack the mono conversion thing yet.
| Bettina |
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| 04/06/2008 17:14 |
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It's always the one I've just taken.
Colour.
| Done&rundleCams |
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| 04/06/2008 17:26 |
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... a few years later another one pops up to take it's place
so,as far as I know, I haven't taken it yet
But, my latest would be this one:
Cheers,
Jack
| john_g |
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| 04/06/2008 23:10 |
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I voted that my best picture is in mono. This, historically, is how almost all of my film pictures were taken and it's the medium that's produced the majority of well-known, published photographs that I admire the most. The odd thing, to me, is that almost all of my pictures that I've taken since going digital have been very definitely colour images. I don't think it's that I can no longer visualise in black and white, I think it's more to do with the fact that, finally, I feel I have full control over the colour process and can now explore it.
Anyway, here is the image that has given me the most satisfaction. It's far from being my most viewed on Flickr and didn't elicit as many comments at my camera club as some of my other pictures, but it's the one that I'm most proud of. Perhaps it shows that I've always admired the work of Eward Weston!
| Wheelu |
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| 05/06/2008 07:33 |
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Difficult. My Windows backgrounds are both colour shots, but that's because they have particular personal associations as well as being rather nice to look at. My Flickr stream is virtually all B&W however as I generally find it easier to take satisfying compositions in that medium, but the shots I try to sell are in colour because I suspect that's what the market wants.
| chris000 |
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| 05/06/2008 20:22 |
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Not sure that I have a 'best' photo, or that I would be the best person to judge anyway - but black and white does it for me every time.
I like this one:
| TimF |
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| 06/06/2008 09:56 |
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It tends to vary according to my mood, but at the moment I'd have to opt for B&W (on the late lamented Scala).
| zellbrink |
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| 11/06/2008 08:47 |
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since i almost always take colour photos (and edit them b&w later on if i fancy it), then colour.