It's always a hard choice, but I usually end up going with color. Except this time. I'm always shooting in color, but when I went to upload this to Instagram, I went with B&W.
Do you prefer B&W in this case? And why? I have my own theories, but I'm curious what you all think.
Both were shot with my Fuji XT-20 with the 27mm f2.8 "pancake" lens. Very little post-production (other an removing the color in the top one) and cropping out a car that was on the left.
We were in Pittsburgh's "Strip District" (which has nothing to do with strip clubs--get your mind out of the gutter, people!) when it started to pour down rain and we ducked into a little sandwich shop.
I go through this a lot myself. For me it makes it hard once you have seen the color version. There's definitely an impact with B&W that you can't achieve with color. But I believe that our minds crave color, and so once we see it in color, it makes it harder to appreciate the impact of B&W.
Anyway, with this picture I prefer the B&W. With the majority of the picture out of focus, the B&W takes advantage of that and brings attention to the in focus drops, while color seems to be distracting. Just my two (actually 0.2 with my voting power) cents worth.
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Very smart observations! Thanks, Onza.
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