>>3390995Usibg colour for street photography is essential, but it needs to be used in terms of composition and not just a technical element.
Selectively keeping one thing coloured and the rest BW is an old trick. (ie.Lady in red dress amonst suit and ties). It must be used more as a point of contrast, such as many little colourful shops against taller hulking bland buildings behind them.
People are also radically different, so you may also want to highlight the chaos of the way some skaters dress-culture amongst the brutalist-style skatepark they frequent.
Street-art also tries to already take advantage of empty space and boring walls to add a splash of colour to those willing to take in a bit of art on their commute.
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Without colour, all of the above would be shamefully squandered compositional potential.
Correctly framed, coloured elements in an image give composition some vibrancy.
Of course, when colour *is* the distracting element, such as one badly positioned neon light on a road otherwise adorned with orange sodium lamps and large brackish buildings layered in the steamy fog of a moist summer, you want toeave it out, so this is where sepia or BW trumps colour.
Blindly telling others that something essential to an artform is useless shows only ones own inexperience, so there is potential for you to learn a lot more.
