Removing color and finding the hidden picture within a recorded image.
Hello Mike, what a great come back! It´s a pretty, elegant, and striking perspective, BW wins hands down for me. That vertical line at the center carries a strong symbolism. It marks a division between style and function, or light and darkness... and the human figures are dwarfed in the middle of this confrontation. I think I would like the image even better with the bottom cropped up to the base of the first lamp.
Love it, very well done.
Ruben,
This is to you, but really also to those who somehow feel that B&W is draining color from a picture or a way of rescuing something that does not work. On the contrary. We merely sample the shapes, patterns and textures reflected and sent to us and from that write a drawing with that light.
There's no reason why we should use all the light that arrives. That's why we choose UV, polarizing or colored filters. In all cases, we are just choosing the wavelengths and polarizing qualities we need to build our picture. There is no truth here, just a photonic echo of what was once in exsitence and will never be the same again.
This example of finding the beautiful image worth contemplating by removing the extraneous wavelengths which detract from the important essence of the potential drama built in but masked by raz-mat-taz eye catching but functional orphaned color, here the blue of the sky.
I say this also for my good friend Nicolas from Bordeaux who suffers when color is lost too easily. But here I think Mike will be forgiven!
Asher
