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BLACK & WHITE SUNDAY: AFTER AND BEFORE Y1-01
Every Sunday I publish a photo challenge in black and white that I call Black & White Sunday. I usually come up with a fresh theme for it, but this time I want to introduce a recurrent (monthly) theme: after and before where you would show the same photo, regardless of the subject, in both monochrome and colour. This is a way of encouraging you not only to set your camera to black and white setting, but to shoot in colour and to convert it into black and white in post processing. I find it useful to look at the same photo in both renditions. By doing this I become more ever of the details, shapes and composition and it eventually helps me improve my photography skills. Maybe you will find this exercise useful too ……
Notre Dame de Paris – after
Notre Dame de Paris – before
©Paula Borkovic
If you want to join the challenge:
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make a photo post on today’s theme before next Sunday
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link it to this challenge post and tag it #blackandwhitesunday
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leave a comment under this post
P.S. If you missed some of the entries from last week’s challenge, you can find the links here. The themes for the next week’s challenges are already published on Scheduled challenges page. Have a good Sunday!
Click on the links to see the entries to the challenge:
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There is always something so dramatic about B&W photography – a great shot on Notre Dame.
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Thank you, Anne.
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Wow, Paula, both versions are beautiful in their own right! 👌😊
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Wow! Love the photos! Dwight
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Thanks
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Personally, I liked the colored picture better!
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Okay. I did it. This is a great challenge. it just hit me on a really super busy day, but i have an entry for you, up first thing in our morning! going to be out of the house much of the day tomorrow (birthday party), but I’ll try to post a link for you before I have to go. I love that painted look for the castle. I think, this time, i prefer the color. But it really does work both ways.
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Marilyn, you always have 7 days to submit for the challenge. No rush 🙂
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I am not sure which one I like better… The colored one looks a bit kitschy to me…
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A Sunday treat! 🙂 The colour one for me, of course, and the soothing music. Just smile, Paula. No need to reply 🙂
Feeling abysmal and like a very old lady, huddled in my dressing gown this morning. Off to work on my walk in the Algarve sunshine. Gentlest hugs, sweetheart!
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Oh, the glorious light in these – a specially great achievement in b&w. This post is a spirit-lifter.
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Impressive 🙂
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good idea to make it recurrent. when I saw your ND in b&w I thought – this must be better than colour, there are so many textures. wrong, both are equally beautiful, colour in this case doesn’t distract as it often does, it is a pleasant backdrop. on the other hand, I like this version of la bohème better than the original.
http://lessywannagohome.blogspot.be/2017/01/b-sunday.html
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Here’s miune, Paula: https://suejudd.com/2017/01/22/black-white-sunday-after-and-before/
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Loving it. Thank you, Sue.
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Thank you, Paula!
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The colour putting much more drama in the pic.
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🙂
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what a great idea – to show both… and I love the color version more here, but both nice. and enjoyed the song even tho I did not know the meaning – so beautiful….
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It’s about a young couple (talking from the perspective of now old man) who barely had enough food to live, but they were happy cause they were in love. A song about Paris and getting by.
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oh right on….
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and here is my entry for this week (I know… a lot of moi this month….. ) – have a nice day
https://priorhouse.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/sunday-b-w-windows/
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It’s an HDR, Jude. The colours do look exaggerated as often in tone mapping, but I don’t think that the church is overexposed.
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Such a fun challenge, Paula – thank you. Hope you’re feeling a little better today 🙂
http://wp.me/pKVAM-2b7
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Thank you, Tish. Actually, I am worse (must rest my arm and limit my use of computers).
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Yes. REST!
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Beautiful photos but I admit I love the color. Perhaps it is the long winter and lack of color that makes me feel this way. Hope you are having a great day!
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Your capture of Notre Dame is breathtaking- both ways! I love seeing both b&w and color in the submissions- so different! here’s mine Paula https://dailymusing57.com/2017/01/22/black-white-sunday-after-before/
hope you got some rest over the weekend
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I felt a bit of magic while I was strolling by the Seine, it summed up many years of waiting to see ND, and it lived to my expectations and even surpassed them. That’s how this capture happened. Thank God for weekends, I am a bit more rested now. Thank you, Lisa.
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Since Notre Dame is one of my favorite subject to photograph in Paris, I can only fall for the black and white picture… until I see the splendid colors of your other picture and I’m even more madly in love with it!
Both are absolutly stark gorgeous! I just can’t stop looking at them!
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This is very kind, Julie, and very relevant coming from you. xx
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I like the colour version best this time Paula. although I wonder how it would look in sepia? All those trees around the cathedral have grown a lot since I as there, perhaps I need to go back. Apologies, this is the second time I haven’t posted the link here. It’s because I’ve scheduled the post and by the time I’m back you’ve beat me to it!
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This is a great challenge Paula – I’m glad you’re doing this one each month. I’m usually torn between colour and monochrome so I’ll really enjoy the opportunity to show both.
Your two are very striking – all that texture – but the black & white wins for me – lets us soak in the detail in the sky.
Here are my pair: https://travelwithintent.com/2017/01/22/before-and-after-havana-rain-reflections/
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Thank you so much, Debbie. I am very happy that you like it. I would visit even more often, but my arm is playing tricks due to excessive work.
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Two friends…friendship and a smile. Looks as if it was a great day both in color and b&w. Today we are closer to spring than we were yesterday.
https://ameditativejourney.wordpress.com/2017/01/22/black-white-sunday-before-and-after/
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Beautiful
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Thank you, Sonya 🙂
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B & W has a mystery about it. Your color photograph is playful. They’re both are outstanding.
Hope you enjoy my thoughts for this weeks challenge. Have a wonderful week ….
Isadora 😎
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Both images are glorious Paula! Wishing you a very happy 2017. I like the idea of this challenge and may participate if I actively blog in 2017. So far, I am lucky to get monthly posts published…but the year is still young.
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The only thing that matters is that you and the captain are well and safely navigating. 🙂 Thank you, Lisa.
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liked black and white one 🙂
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Me too :). Thanks, Joshi.
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I had a go with a picture that I’d had for a while.
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I like the processing, Paula, in both of them.
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Glad to know it, Lynne 🙂 Thank you.
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I’ve had a busy week and couldn’t paricipate, buit hopefully next week. 🙂 Great shot as always and sometimes it’s very useful to see the photo in both B%W and colors.
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An interesting exercise in seeing. Both are nice, but B/W appeals more to me more.
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That was interesting. I looked at the black and white one for a while, with its strange mossy fabric-like quality and only then, after reading your post, did I realise there was a second, colour, shot. This was suddenly enchanting and yet the greens seemed very bright. The blues in the stonework had a fairytale appearance, especially against the colours in the sky and the gleams of sunlight on the tower – magical. I can’t work out how much this was the effect of studying the monochrome image first.
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