Susanne Chui in Black & White

Posted by Ella Cooper (Toronto, Canada) on 4 March 2007 in Lifestyle & Culture and Portfolio.

I think I prefer this shot in black and white.

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Comments (10)

kmf from Dubai, United Arab Emirates

good blck and white

4 Mar 2007 3:22am

Jerry from Tampa, United States

Ella - what a lovely series with consistently grand images - and I love the elegance of your dancer!

4 Mar 2007 4:32am

Shuva from Hyderabad, India

Ella, I have missed to visit your site for a week or two, and after seeing all the pictures, I must say that I like you post b/w pictures. They somehow tend to show the spect of dance and body curves more vividly than the colored pictures.

4 Mar 2007 5:46am

Shiva from Kajang, Malaysia

good one ella.

4 Mar 2007 7:13am

Ins@no from Porto, Portugal

I like this series, there's a good connection between de nodel and the camera.

Ps: A little detail, I think her right shouldn't be against the light.. but is just a little "if" froim my behalf, keep up the good work.

4 Mar 2007 7:21am

Daniel from United States

Very fine image. Cheers!

4 Mar 2007 1:06pm

filipe franco from Lagoa, Azores, Portugal

Nice work. Great moment!

4 Mar 2007 2:17pm

Bronnie from Christchurch, New Zealand

Hmmm, hard put to choose between this one and the coloured version - her movement is so fluid, and the colours is great in both...

4 Mar 2007 7:09pm

Ken McCoy from Orlando-Daytona Beach, FL, United States

Have you thought of keying out the color of everything *except* the model? This would be easier to do in this shot if the background color was not so close to skin tones -- but maybe if the background were not so close, the figure would "pop out" more anyway, making the separation unnecessary. In any event, I prefer natural skin tones to black and white, except in cases where black and white makes a clear aesthetic contribution: capturing the wrinkles in an ancient face, for example, or in the case of dancers, where the line/form of movement is more abstract and less personal. Most of your images communicate so much personality of the dancer to me -- and you do this so well -- that I seem to want the "human content" to be realized in color, esp. since Suzanne has such beautiful skin tone.

4 Mar 2007 10:51pm