Black and White Challenge - Entries

Light Meter by Lisa K. Berton

Two weeks ago my blog entry encouraged my readers to try photographing in black and white or to at least convert some color photographs into black and white to see the difference. A few of you sent in photos and I’m delighted to post them. This challenge will run for the rest of 2012 so be sure to send in your photos. You can read the original blog here.

Craig

I have problems with my color vision (commonly called “colorblind” but more accurately “red/green color weakness”) so although I usually take color pictures, I often appreciate B&W simply because I know what I see is what others see. If I play with the color in a photo as you and Scott sometimes do, I might end up with something that looks fine to me, but screwy to all you normal people (well, normal sighted, anyway.)

This is a picture that I took at Disneyland several years ago. I have it among the pictures which rotate as the background on my computer but I really like the black and white version, and have it in the rotation, too.

Thanks again for your photo hints on AllEars.

“Normal sighted, anyway” made me laugh. I see you pointing at me. Just don’t point at me in cyan. I’m a little weak in that area.

Lauren

My name is Lauren and Walt Disney World is my passion. I am 14 years old and have been to WDW 19 times. I read all the blogs on AllEars every day. I just love it. My favorite is Picture This! because when I go to Disney I always take tons of photos.

When I saw your challenge on the Color vs. Black & White, I took to it! After searching through my photo files I only found a couple of black & white ones and they were from IllumiNations and were a little blurry. So the first image is from January 2011, when I was there for my 13th birthday.

I then decided to find an image that I could turn black & white with my Photoshop CS5. This image has a story behind it. So my dad found out that Disney offers educational classes for certain age groups. So he signed my up for an Animation Class. I got into MGM, sorry, Hollywood Studios, before it even opened. I noticed after the picture was taken that a Cast Member was adding finishing touches to the Planet Hollywood Store.