I can't choose...

[Rense Haveman]

Made this one a while ago somewhere on the border of Wales and England. The colour version is rather dull - I won't show it - but I can't choose between these two versions - a monochromatic, and a dichromatic one....


English Countryside by Rense Haveman, on Flickr




English Countryside, version II by Rense Haveman, on Flickr

 

[Pete Askew]

The dichromatic for me Rense. I like the enhanced contrast between the trees and the sky at the horizon that it gives. It also brings 'life' to the foreground I think.

 

[Dan Cattermole]

Dichromatic for me Rense! It looks amazing!!

 

[Hamish Gill]

I agree with Pete, there is more depth to the second one ...
I can't help feeling that there is a touch to much foreground though somehow?

 

[Rense Haveman]

The dichromatic for me Rense. I like the enhanced contrast between the trees and the sky at the horizon that it gives. It also brings 'life' to the foreground I think.

Thanks Pete! I think you're right, although I love the simplicity of the B&W one...

Dichromatic for me Rense! It looks amazing!!

Thanks a lot Dan! That's two for splitted colour...

I agree with Pete, there is more depth to the second one ...
I can't help feeling that there is a touch to much foreground though somehow?

And number 3 for splitted colour.... Thanks!
Don't know about the foreground. If you'd cut it, something of the depth will vanish,
and I really would like to have the anthills in the lower-left corner in the photo, because
it says something about the age of the system.....

But that's probably only me and my biology background...

 

[adrian jordin]

I'd have to go for #2 myself....
Without seeing the original I don't know if I'd have chosen those precise tones, but they certainly work...

 

[Ralph Thornton]

The second one (dichromatic?) is my choice. The depth that adds looks pretty nice. My eyes are seeing the distants horizon just a little tilted. Are my eyes ok?

 

[Brian Moore]

Dichromatic for me, Rense. I like what it does to the sky on the left horizon.

 

[Rense Haveman]

I'd have to go for #2 myself....
Without seeing the original I don't know if I'd have chosen those precise tones, but they certainly work...

The second one (dichromatic?) is my choice. The depth that adds looks pretty nice. My eyes are seeing the distants horizon just a little tilted. Are my eyes ok?

Dichromatic for me, Rense. I like what it does to the sky on the left horizon.

Nr 2 it is, I guess....

Thanks for looking and commenting!

 

[Davie Hudson]

for me definitely number 2

 

[Jim Kuo]

#2 for me, too. In the dichromatic version, the contrast between the sky and the shadow parts (tree and the mountain) seems stronger than the B/W version, for me, it helps in shaping and defining the subjects (trees & mountain), making them stand out more vividly.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

Both are excellent - what a great capture with the steeply rolling hills and those trees clinging on to the slope!

I'm drawn to the B&W version - as you say, it has a clean 'simplicity'

 

[Alastair Cummins]

Cant explain why, but straight away I preferred number 2

 

[Dave Moss]

number 2 for me also

 

[Rense Haveman]

Thanks a lot for all your comments! It's clear most votes go for the second one,
but it gives me also clues to spice up the B&W version... Thanks again!!

 

[Chris Armstrong]

For me...#2. As many have said before, there is a sense of depth and realism that really pops with the dichromatic. Lovely landscape.

 

[Rense Haveman]

Thanks Christopher-James!

For me...#2. As many have said before, there is a sense of depth and realism that really pops with the dichromatic. Lovely landscape.

 

[Chris Armstrong]

Thanks Christopher-James!

Chris will do...for some reason when I signed up, I was not allowed to use "Chris" or even "Christopher", and I feel like a bit of a schmuck with Christopher-James above all my posts....such is life.

 

[Rense Haveman]

Chris will do...for some reason when I signed up, I was not allowed to use "Chris" or even "Christopher", and I feel like a bit of a schmuck with Christopher-James above all my posts....such is life.

Haha, Chris! When I answered I already thought that Christopher-Jamers would not be your 'daily' name.... Thanks, Chris it is!