>>2680834>Colour is the default, both on camera settings and - hopefully - on your damn eyes.Depends on the amount of light you're seeing.
Our eyes actually have terrible color reproduction at night. Just absolute and utter shit.
>You have to have a reason to shoot without colour, because the very first thing someone will notice when they look at that picture - no matter its subject - is that it has no colour.This frames their mind to take in the photo in a certain way. If you regularly work in black and white, which most people that care about the subject do, people tend to notice something past the sheer unsaturatedness of it. I apologize if you lack the ability to distinguish.
You're welcome to shoot color primarily, most people do, I was making a point in that post to the contrary of the mindset of the anon; art is about mindsets, anon.
Where you say color is the default because you ~see in color~, I say black and white is my default because my goal is not to give you a strict representation of what is, my goal is to create a photograph that stands on its own. In this regard, color is only complimentary (and thus, desired) in an image when the color actually compliments the photograph.
>If your photo has no particular reason to be in black and white, then essentially the first thing anyone thinks when looking at it is 'why the fuck is photo in black and white?', or worse, 'would i be able to tell this photo was in some way special if it wasn't for the fact that they chose to put it in black and white as a massive "im being so artistic right now guys" billboard?'.People that think like this should not be your primary thought, as they are extremely unlikely to make up your primary audience if your interest in photography is anything other than bokeh portraits of couples and their children.
Thanks for your amateur hour post and internet-addict avatarfagging. :)
