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Post by chrisc on May 5, 2013 17:11:18 GMT
You would think all the photos in the Red Arrow Diner series would take nicely to B&W, but in reality, this is the only one that gets a thumbs up from me...  |
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Post by mariehass on May 5, 2013 23:23:16 GMT
Very nice tonal range, nice angle, nice everything.
Rie
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Post by Stevewebb on May 6, 2013 10:50:33 GMT
It does work in B&W very well, although having seen the colour version first it always makes it difficult to appreciate it fully.
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Post by chrisc on May 6, 2013 12:28:15 GMT
This is what someone in another forum wrote...and I think it is quite fitting:
In the black and white version, I feel the subject to me is more about this man, reading his morning paper. I wonder about him and why he doesn't read it at home. Reading a newspaper is an exclusionary act, leaving others out, but also may well be that he feels a need to be with others yet needs something to do to not just look at the wall. Although there is depth it pretty much ends at the back wall, and all my attention seems to go to this individual. To me, this one depicts a portrait of this man's morning more than perhaps just the diner.
In the color version, it changes, drastically, for me. I now feel it's more about the diner, and the man is just a part of the scene. I now realize there is another customer behind him, father along the counter ( a man that was not obvious to me in the b/w version. I start to notice that there is a huge bottle of ketchup on the counter that was just a big dark something in black and white. I notice the red lamps shades and the colors in the background and that window to the outside. My roaming makes me notice more and more elements and I notice the arrows and wonder why. This one to me helps me explore the diner more fully.
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