We are often told that the world is black and white! Things are either right or wrong or up and down, left or right, and so on and so forth. I decided to practice rendering some of my images in black and white and have discovered that they are anything but black and white. It really appears that everything is a shade of grey. Some light grey tones (almost bordering on white) and some darker grey tones (tending toward black), but all grey nontheless. It does seem to me that "black and white" images are more "dramatic" than color images, and I wonder if this is because the image is more "foreign" to our eyes that a color image that seems more normal? The one thing that black and white does is accentuate the lines in an image very precisely, while color seems to blend more.The next time someone tells you that everything is black and white, remember it is only different shades of grey. If you disagree with this I am OK with that as even my opinions are just various shades of grey.
Live well and prosper
Dennis
From your image we can see most color is grey just like most things are not black or white in our lives. Black and white is easy to see but we still have to deal with the grey things which we feel confused about. On the other hand, things that seem black and white might indeed be so, but not in the way we think! We must stand in the other person’s shoes and look at the situation through their eyes in order to truly understand their perspective. Is this life? I prefer colorful life as prefering color image although things often come in all different shades of gray.
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