diptych # 196 / photo noir # 3-4 • 3a-4a ~ choices

restricted views ~ Pittsburgh< PA • click to embiggen
photo noir # 3 ~ • click to embiggen
photo noir # 4 ~ • click to embiggen
photo noir # 3a ~ • click to embiggen
photo noir # 4a ~ • click to embiggen

I have completed preliminary BW conversions on 34 of the 42 pictures which deemed noir worthy. The conversion process was also an editing process inasmuch as I converted only those pictures which more emphatically conveyed the bleak pessimism, and a lurking sense of danger feeling of the noir film genre.

Now that preliminary conversions are at hand, I have been contemplating the notion of color vs BW. The 2 noir pictures in this entry are presented in both color and BW because they represent the challenge of deciding between the color / BW formats inasmuch as, in the case of these particular pictures, I feel that both color and BW work equally well. Not every noir picture works both ways, so I have some deciding to do.

Then of course, the big deciding is editing down the collection to 5-7 pictures for submission to the gallery / juror for consideration.