It’s a tremendous shot and the dress lends itself well to colour for sure.

The Vegas blog is taking a while, the sheer volume of photos!! It’s going to be a long one or at least one with plenty of images.

Hey John,

Great mind think alike ! when I saw the photo selected by LFI, I told to myself that we were thinking of the same thing. We are tagged as B&W photographers but sometimes it’s cool to go colour ! As you said, digital photography allows us to choose afterwards what medium we are going to use. Even if most of the time I have B&W mindset when I’m in the street, I’m open-minded to color cos I shoot in color. I’m looking forward reading your Blog on Las Vegas to see what you came back with ! Hurry up !
This Lady was a happy encounter in a village not far from mine. She was just sunbathing at the entrance of her house and I chatted a moment with her. I have to look at it in mono. I just processed it in color because of her lovely flourish dress ! 😉

Thanks Vasco !

I guess that the more you photography in color, the more you understand how to use it. I have a basic approach of the color photography. I don’t think I already master completely the color factor. As you said, I finally understood that color and layers work perfectly ! You used the term “tridimensionality” and that’s it !
Color is reality and Black & White is the interpretation of the reality. We all see the world in color, but somehow, I still have a preference for the monochrome. I guess that I’m influenced by the photographs I really admire even if I have a few photobooks in color (The suffering of light and The last resort). I know that I could improve my color photography by sticking with color for a while. Not today, may be one day ! 😉

Thanks for dropping by Vasco! Best regards

There are some cracking images in your slide show btw, which I don’t think I’ve seen before. Particularly like the old lady with her finger to her lips…now that’d look good in Black and White….;-)

Congrats for one more interesting article. Once more I´m grateful that you do not forget my work.

But I must be sincere. Friends never lie. Your color photos are really great!

I love more your color work because allows you to highlight certain elements in an image and grab our attention more. I feel color brings out in your images an extra meaning and better depth / layers / tridimensionality – improving object recognition and associations inside frame.

Of course it is only one opinion and you must follow your heart. And we know that both B & W Photography and Color can be great and Art.

The evolution of a photographer is done mainly in an instinctive way. Things happen gradually and intuitively without being programmed. And sometimes they surprises us.
It is true that now I´m shooting only in color. And it just happened without thinking about it.

When sometimes people ask me why I´m doing now Photograpy only in colors I answer that it is because I have color memories and I dream in color. But what interests me more is the emotion of the images through the use at same time of shadow and color rendering.

Cheers

VT