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Damien DemolderModerator
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New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W?
      #662131 - 03/06/2008 08:06

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



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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: Damien Demolder]
      #662137 - 03/06/2008 08:27

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.


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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: beejaybee]
      #662142 - 03/06/2008 08:42

I voted colour. Certainly the pictures that have done well for me so far are colour shots.

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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: Hotblack]
      #662152 - 03/06/2008 10:07

Not sure if this is my best photograph, but it's one of my favourites:



And of course it's black and white.

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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: Damien Demolder]
      #662179 - 03/06/2008 11:44

Ummm... Well, it started off as colour...

There doesn't seem to be an option for "could be either really"

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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: Damien Demolder]
      #662190 - 03/06/2008 12:04

Monochrome definatly, and shot in mono on film. Sorry, don't have a scanner so can't post an image.
Dave


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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: Damien Demolder]
      #662204 - 03/06/2008 12:13

I think I'd have to say most of my better pictures are in colour. Here's a particular favourite...

(ClickPic for bigger)

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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: Damien Demolder]
      #662236 - 03/06/2008 13:09

Define "best".

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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: El Sid]
      #662239 - 03/06/2008 13:15

Quote:

I think I'd have to say most of my better pictures are in colour. Here's a particular favourite...

(ClickPic for bigger)




That's one that has stuck in my mind too

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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: daft_biker]
      #662245 - 03/06/2008 13:27

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)

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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: daft_biker]
      #662264 - 03/06/2008 13:58

Still to take mine yet.

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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: Mojo_66]
      #662266 - 03/06/2008 14:02

Quote:

Still to take mine yet.



^^^WSS

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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: Benchista]
      #662305 - 03/06/2008 16:10

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

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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: Damien Demolder]
      #662336 - 03/06/2008 17:09

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.

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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: huwevans]
      #662370 - 03/06/2008 19:18

Probably Colour for me, in fact one of my first attempts with Medium Format.



Click for 600x600 version

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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: Scphoto]
      #662372 - 03/06/2008 19:23



Definitely colour

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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: Damien Demolder]
      #662381 - 03/06/2008 19:52

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



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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: Damien Demolder]
      #662497 - 04/06/2008 08:25

Definitely colour, but then again, I still haven't quite managed to crack the mono conversion thing yet.



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Re: New poll - your best ever picture, colour or B&W? [Re: Damien Demolder]
      #662705 - 04/06/2008 17:14

It's always the one I've just taken.

Colour.

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Re: Everytime I think I have taken a "really good/best" photo .... [Re: Damien Demolder]
      #662713 - 04/06/2008 17:26

... 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:



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