>>4491118The secret is that colours are incredibly important because they dictate how much contrast each object gets. Doubly so if using colour filters (you should be) and even MORE so if you're using special film stocks that can be more or less sensitive to certain colours. It's a decietfuly simple concept since at first glance you go "it must be simple there's only black grey and white hue hue", but balancing the contrast in your overall composition, your foreground and background, and your subject are all important and easily fucked up.
And then there's black and white snapshits that are simple and throw all that theory out the window because muh nostalgic and muh filmic vibes. They still tend to look "nice" because it's much easier to view a black and white photograph as removed from reality since, well, reality is in colour.
There's also the plain fact that removing colour from a photo forces you to focus on the other elements that do or don't make the photograph good. This is why selective-colour chuds are dunked on so hard here: you're forcing an easy way to highlight your subject via software instead of actually putting thought into it.
This becomes a bit of a moot point if you scan though because then you can just chuck up some post-processing.
