Which one?

I really liked it in B&W, but I want to hear others opinions…

I find the black and white more pleasing. To me the colour one is over white balanced, which has sucked a lot of the richness out of the blue. I think the black and white one also works well with the simple, strong composition.

I would suggest working a bit more on the black and white, though. Certainly bringing out more shadow detail on the wreck and also lightening the whole image a bit.

Alex

Of these two, I prefer the colour one. B&W has lost the detail of the wreck and is very monotone - think you need to ramp the contrast up on B&W.

So that's one vote for colour and one for B&W!

To start with I think Wrecks almost always look better in black and white .. with quite a few exceptions.

In this case your colour one looks better, although I agree with Alex it seems a little over WB .. the blu eis kinda pale and the very bow of the wreck is a little too red.

However your black and white conversion, either due to resizing or original conversion to black and white just doesnt pop quite as well as it should. I think if you try converting it again (there are lots of thread in here on peopes opinions on best ways to convert) i think you will be on a winner .. for sure.

Thanks guys, I will follow your advises.

The colour image has what Jim Church called the "blahs": the colours aren't punchy or well saturated. That means that it was taken from too far away (ie too far away for the conditions on the day: it doesn't look as if you could have got much closer). The divers look as if they are slightly out of focus, suggesting that conditions were at least somewhat murky.

In that situation, if you can't go back and try again, then monochrome is great: convert to a grayscale image, then push up the contrast in editing, so that you have a range from pure black to pure white. Try it with your right-hand image, and then compare it with the colour: what do you think? The eye interprets the increased contrast as increased sharpness, which is also not a bad thing.

Here is an example:

What do you think?

If the colours don't contribute to the impact of the image, removing them can help emphasize the shape. I think it's the shape that is the interesting part of the image you have made. That's often true of wrecks.

Tim

B)

normally I like wrecks in B&W, but this time I like the color one better...or, as some of you say, colour...

I wish the wreck wasn't cut off in the lower right hand corner, but then you would have been further away in murkey water, so I guess its a tradeoff.

I too normally prefer the BW, but of these two images the colored one looks better.