p.1 #7 · Portrait of my wife - color or not? (REVISIONS ADDED)
Tones are not great for black and white, colors are vibrant.
If you burned the left of the frame so that it was darker, the B&W version may work better. The light tones on the left compete with the light tones on her face in B&W.
p.1 #8 · Portrait of my wife - color or not? (REVISIONS ADDED)
Color absolutely. But it's lit by incandescent bulb and far too yellow. Need to adjust in Hue saturation and get that yellow out a bit. Or if using something like LR, adjust for the yellows various ways. Then the garment, gold and especially her eyes and skin tone will be beautiful.
p.1 #10 · Portrait of my wife - color or not? (REVISIONS ADDED)
Thanks to everyone for your feedback. In response, I've made a few changes to each image, and have reposted here. Medowlark, Rajitev and Georgiegirl, I take your criticism of the yellow tungsten cast, and adjusted the image as below.
Bryanlindsey, I see what you are saying re: compositional competition in the tones to the right. I've dialed them back a bit... would be interested to see if you like the revisions better.
Color image with yellow-cast adjustments
Monochrome image with selective burn-in
Jan 03, 2014 at 02:35 AM
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p.1 #11 · Portrait of my wife - color or not? (REVISIONS ADDED)
She is very beautiful, you have a lovely model! Nice photo's, very classic!
p.1 #12 · Portrait of my wife - color or not? (REVISIONS ADDED)
The revisions are much better. Still think that you needed a bit more fill light on the left side of her face or some diffusion on the main light source. The contrast is to harsh from the right to left side of her face. Fix that and the B&W version would be great. The color one still seems to have a bit too much yellow still, but a vast improvement to the original. She is a lovely model.
p.1 #15 · Portrait of my wife - color or not? (REVISIONS ADDED)
The revised color version is my favorite of the bunch. I am not sure how much latitude the m240 has in the dark areas but I would try to lift the shadows just enough to be able to better resolve the difference between pupil and iris in your wife's eyes.
