I tend to use color for the photographs I use to document a trip (as in yesterday’s Wasson Peak blog entry, and many of my Colorado 14er reports). I move to monochrome for the images that strike me as being more emotional, more artistic…more laden with mood and meaning.
At least that’s my sense.
For these color “documentary images”, I often feel obligated to say exactly where the place is and what you are looking at. I often point out interesting or popular landmarks.
With my black and white photographs, though, I feel like it doesn’t matter where the images were captured…it is more about how they make you feel on a gut level.
Here are four monochromes from Wasson as an example. Compare these with the more conventional, documentary, and postcardy-type images in yesterday’s trip report. What do you think? Do you see a difference in emotion? Do you not find the monochromes to have a deeper layer of feeling?
