Which one is better -poll

Colour. Definitely. The red fish look much better with blue water, than light grey fish and dark/mid grey water.

But then both are nice shots.

Alex

Colour.

IMHO There is not enough contrast between the diver and the wall in the B&W shot. The diver gets lost in this grey void in the middle of the photo. In the colour shot the diver is better defined by virtue of being bright yellow

cheers

Leander

Colour. You posted this shot before. I really like it. In B&W it does nothing for me...

i agree with the rest, just not the right subject matter for B&W

I prefer it in color as well. The only thing that seems to work in B&W for me are ship wrecks or something (big) isolated on the water column or sand.

Thanks for the replies. So far, color is winning by a large percentage. The most recent issue of Digital Photo Pro has a nice article on B+W conversions and I was going a little crazy trying the different conversion methods. Thanks for the perspective.

I like the color version as well, Larry. The red of the fish really brings the wow factor to the image.

Linda