Color vs Black & White
In the earlier conversation regarding how the difference between color and black and white photos affect us, here are two copies of a photo I took with my Brownie camera when I was 8 years old. The house belonged to my Maternal Great-Grandparents who lived in what was then a very small town in East Texas called Sulphur Springs. We had gone there that day because my Great-Grandmother had walked on, and they were holding the after funeral gathering at her house, which was passed on to her eldest daughter as my Great-Grandfather had walked on several years before, and they wanted to keep the house in the family. But, not many of the family wanted to move to Winnsboro to live in the house. So the eldest daughter was a widow and the house was paid for, so she could live there for just the cost of the yearly taxes and utilities.
In those days according to social protocol, children were not allowed to attend funerals or the gatherings afterward as they would be too loud or too rambunctious and not hold the proper respect. So my Brother and I were left sitting in our car across the street while my parents went inside to pay their last respects to the rest of the family before we started back to Ft Worth.
It was really warm that day so my Brother and I got out of the car and sat on the grass under a tree. As I sat looking out at the house across the street where I had only been allowed to enter 3 times out of the 8 years of my life. Children were not allowed around the elderly as they made too much noise and made the elderly folk much to nervous. Since we would likely never be coming back to that house again, at least not for a long time since my Great-Grandmother was now gone, I decided to take a picture of the house with my camera to remember what it looked like from the outside. I don't know why, but, I kept it all these years.
The original coloring of the color film made the original picture a bit redish/pinkish in color. So I decided to see what it would look like in Grayscale. I myself actually like it better in the Grayscale, as it looks more natural than the original coloring.
Which do you think looks best?
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