which I like better, color or B&W. normally I don't have this problem. if I see the B&W first I love it, then I see the color and cant make a decision.
gheller wrote:
I am leaning towards the b/w, but I wish his back eye weren't slightly OOF. Also, that eye looks dingy for lack of a better word.
Any others with both eyes in focus?
Nice otherwise
greg
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Jim Rickards wrote:
The B&W does get rid of the green, so if you are not fond of that shirt colour, it will help your choice. Otherwise both are looking good.
An interesting look with that choice of DOF. A bit too much crop of the head for me.
thanks guys.
no i dont have another image with the back eye more in focus. just a side effect of 1.4 and being too close. the crop was also in camera so unfortunately i cant uncrop it to see what that looks like. ive been cropping more in camera lately as that is what my eye was drawn into more composition wise that i liked.
Jim, its not that I dont like green, i love the color one and the skin tones. the B&W just drew me in also as I felt it simplified the image more so.
It's definitely razor sharp in the front eye. It's probably the flick bbcode compression. The original ... Heck even the 2048px version is sharp in the front eye.
Disaster wrote:
I like the composition and lighting. I prefer the color version.
It doesn't seem very sharp even at the front eye...perhaps that is just a characteristic of the particular lens you used wide open.
nextelbuddy wrote:
It's definitely razor sharp in the front eye.
the front eye as it appears on this website is out of focus, and I think it at a minimum needs to be sharp if you're going to pull off such a shallow depth of focus on the rest of the image. What lens did you shoot this with?
What saves the image is his adorable expression. I think the image would have been a winner had you stopped down a bit more.
They are both excellent. The focus situation is not a problem especially for a portrait. Everything does not have to be razor sharp. This is sharp enough and the image has so many other great qualities.
