When taking photos, do you prefer to capture shots using color imaging or black and white?
The debate over beauty and preference concerning color vs. black and white photography has raged for years. There are boisterous advocates of each. Traditionalists argue that black and white presents a more formal appearance than color photos. However, color photography displays the splendor of real life as we see it. The general trend has long been toward color. It is actually more simple today and cheaper to produce.
In decades past, that was not the case. It took a long period of time for the quality of color photography to surpass the results produced through black and white. And with a lengthy legacy of black and white pictures dating back prior to the US Civil War, critics of color pictures won the day. It wasn’t until the early 1990’s that the improved quality of color photographs made their greatest impact on the culture.
Color in Today’s Photographs
The renaissance of color photography brought forth the decline in the use black and white. Black and white gradually became the exception as the supply of film and equipment to develop...