Experiment with black and white

[lakrids404]

I Have tried to clean up my picture collection. And I think I have erased about 15 % of them now. Not that the rest are fantastic, but many of them, are with people I know. And that makes them harder for me to erase.

Anyway, when I looked through my collection photo's. I found that some of them, worked better as B&W imo

Comments

[scrollgirl]

These are fantastic! I especially like the first one, the windswept grass. But the harvester thing in the field is also beautiful in its way, like the bleached bones of an animal. They're all wonderful :)

[lakrids404]

Thank you
The picture with the-harvest-thing, is an relative elderly picture. That I sort of liked, but I still felt it missed something, and I think I found that something to be the conversion to B&W.

[fivestep.livejournal.com]

You are right - sand dunes and summer houses definitely look better in B&W. I found from my images that these houses are usually very colorful and detract attention from the overall composition. I'm envious that I did not think about B&W myself.

[lakrids404.livejournal.com]

As I wrote, I my self is in the experiment phase, when it comes to B&W. But I am beginning to see, why some landscape or portrait photographers uses B&W. Because sometime the colors are distracting for the over all photo and also because everything becomes more artistic in B&W

[roseveare.livejournal.com]

I really like the first and third of these!

[lakrids404.livejournal.com]

Thanks, they are also some of my favorites.

[masteroth.livejournal.com]

Wow, sorry for 'spamming' yopu with comments when I don't know you, but I'm really fascinated by your photos... It's like you can capture the 'analogue vividness' with a digital cam..... that's just amazing. I can see that you obviosuly use an editing programme, can I ask which one?
I use Adobe Photoshop, but mostly the freeware GIMP.