Damien Demolder
Tharg the Mighty
Reged: 22/08/2001
Posts: 1022
Loc: Essex born and badly-bred
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This week's question coincides with our black and white special issue. We want to know whether the picture you judge to be the best you have ever taken is in colour or black and white. Simple as that!
...and why not post a 300 pixel version of it below so we can all see..
Go to the Home Page to vote.
Thanks for playing.
damien
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beejaybee
Marvin
Reged: 18/07/2007
Posts: 4980
Loc: Really Here In Name Only
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Hmmm, not sure how to characterise mine ... it was taken on colour reversal film, but 90% of the area is one colour with a small patch of a contrasting colour. And I desaturated it heavily. The effect is more of a toned monochrome print than a colour image.
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Hotblack
Dead Horse Flogger
Reged: 07/03/2006
Posts: 7352
Loc: Upstairs in the spare room.
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I voted colour. Certainly the pictures that have done well for me so far are colour shots.
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David
David J White Photography
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bagpuss
Prolific Pam
Reged: 08/04/2006
Posts: 8980
Loc: Camulodunum
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Not sure if this is my best photograph, but it's one of my favourites:
And of course it's black and white.
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Clodhopper
Manyana
Reged: 04/04/2007
Posts: 449
Loc: Norfolk 'n good
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Ummm... Well, it started off as colour... 
There doesn't seem to be an option for "could be either really"
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Everything's shiny Cap'n
my pics
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DaveS
enthusiast
Reged: 22/06/2007
Posts: 256
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Monochrome definatly, and shot in mono on film. Sorry, don't have a scanner so can't post an image.
Dave
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DaveS's Flickr Photos
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El Sid
Going potty
Reged: 14/04/2003
Posts: 9470
Loc: Sussex-by-the-Sea
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I think I'd have to say most of my better pictures are in colour. Here's a particular favourite...
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Nigel
Completely BSRIPN 
ElSid Gallery
A camera in the hand is more fun than one in the cupboard........
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Benchista
Wich Tyler
Reged: 11/08/2000
Posts: 37886
Loc: Everywhere and nowhere, baby
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Define "best". 
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Nick
www.nbrphoto.com
Light and Shade II - the new blog
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daft_biker
Action Man!
Reged: 11/10/2006
Posts: 7692
Loc: Doon the glen
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Quote:
I think I'd have to say most of my better pictures are in colour. Here's a particular favourite...
(ClickPic for bigger)
That's one that has stuck in my mind too 
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Andrew (BSRIPN) ... Pics.
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daft_biker
Action Man!
Reged: 11/10/2006
Posts: 7692
Loc: Doon the glen
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Colour for me as I do very little B&W.
Dunno if it's my best shot or even wheat a best shot is (will I know it when I see it?) but it's one of my faves just now anyway:
(Megabunus diadema)
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Andrew (BSRIPN) ... Pics.
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Mojo_66
Rain Kat
Reged: 25/05/2006
Posts: 3386
Loc: Lancs
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Still to take mine yet.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/mojo_black/
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OneTen
'Two Breakfasts'
Reged: 23/06/2003
Posts: 2540
Loc: Devon
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Quote:
Still to take mine yet.
^^^WSS
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Richard .......... My Website - My Blog - My Flickr
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parisian
Over the hill and far away...
Reged: 10/02/2002
Posts: 7722
Loc: Môn mam cymru
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Quite. 'Best' in what context?
Most successful in competition?
Best seller?
Most applause from family
Warm glow whenever you see it?
Each of these would be different shots 
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Hells pensioner - born to be mild
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huwevans
Old Hand
Reged: 05/08/2000
Posts: 15464
Loc: Dorset, UK
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Neatly side-stepping all the issues about defining 'best', for me there's simply no doubt - it's a monochrome image.
Mayfield Park, Sheffield, 1988ish. Ilford FP4
I've never sold a single copy of it. It's technically flawed - without a tripod I couldn't hold the background clearly enough when focussing on the nearest bench (where I wanted the sharpest plane to be) at the slowest speed I could safely shoot at, and so I focussed further into the scene that I would have wanted. I have to print the neg on a harder grade than is ideal just to fool the eye into thinking the whole thing is sharper than it really is. But with a fair bit of judicious dodging and burning, the end result is the only picture I've ever taken which everyone I've ever show it to seems to like. Every other picture I show there will be some who don't like it, but about this one there never seems to be any disagreement. So in those terms, I consider it to be my 'best'. It's certainly my own personal favourite.
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Scphoto
Little Fruitbat
Reged: 13/11/2005
Posts: 2570
Loc: Birmingham, UK
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Probably Colour for me, in fact one of my first attempts with Medium Format.
Click for 600x600 version
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Dave_Cox
old'n'grumpy
Reged: 12/07/2006
Posts: 3106
Loc: somewhere in Sussex
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Definitely colour
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Growing old disgracefully!
http://snapper56.deviantart.com/gallery/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dave2006/
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the_sun_king
newbie
Reged: 31/05/2008
Posts: 15
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my favourite photo changes on a weekly basis... and like someone already said, i've yet to take my best shot...
but this is my current favourite
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my flickr page
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fabs
Carpal \'Tunnel
Reged: 10/04/2007
Posts: 2880
Loc: Beds/Bucks
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Definitely colour, but then again, I still haven't quite managed to crack the mono conversion thing yet.
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Bettina
Kein Titel
Reged: 12/02/2004
Posts: 4104
Loc: London
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It's always the one I've just taken.
Colour.
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Bettina
http://www.vibrantpictures.co.uk
Vibrant Pictures on Flickr
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Done&rundleCams
Senior Member
Reged: 20/12/2001
Posts: 16752
Loc: Vancouver, BC
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... a few years later another one pops up to take it's place so,
as far as I know, I haven't taken it yet 
But, my latest would be this one:
Cheers,
Jack
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Life is a Photo-op
MY BLOG: www.nakedmanonawire.blogspot.com
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john_g
Pooh-bah Hoo-ha
Reged: 09/05/2007
Posts: 2536
Loc: Surrey
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I voted that my best picture is in mono. This, historically, is how almost all of my film pictures were taken and it's the medium that's produced the majority of well-known, published photographs that I admire the most. The odd thing, to me, is that almost all of my pictures that I've taken since going digital have been very definitely colour images. I don't think it's that I can no longer visualise in black and white, I think it's more to do with the fact that, finally, I feel I have full control over the colour process and can now explore it.
Anyway, here is the image that has given me the most satisfaction. It's far from being my most viewed on Flickr and didn't elicit as many comments at my camera club as some of my other pictures, but it's the one that I'm most proud of. Perhaps it shows that I've always admired the work of Eward Weston!
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John
Who could suppose that angels move the stars, or be so superstitious as to suppose that because one cannot see one's soul at the end of a microscope, it does not exist?
R.D.Laing The Politics Of Experience
http://www.flickr.com/photos/john_gass
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Wheelu
member
Reged: 31/10/2007
Posts: 168
Loc: UK, up North
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Difficult. My Windows backgrounds are both colour shots, but that's because they have particular personal associations as well as being rather nice to look at. My Flickr stream is virtually all B&W however as I generally find it easier to take satisfying compositions in that medium, but the shots I try to sell are in colour because I suspect that's what the market wants.
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chris000
veteran
Reged: 30/11/2005
Posts: 1286
Loc: Wiltshire, UK
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Not sure that I have a 'best' photo, or that I would be the best person to judge anyway - but black and white does it for me every time.
I like this one:
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Chris
The most beautiful thing under the Sun is being under the Sun - Christa Wolfe
www.chriswaldrenphotography.co.uk
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TimF
Senior Member
Reged: 30/07/2001
Posts: 16478
Loc: Herts/Beds border
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It tends to vary according to my mood, but at the moment I'd have to opt for B&W (on the late lamented Scala).
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Tim BSRIPN
You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print. - Garry Winogrand
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zellbrink
newbie
Reged: 11/06/2008
Posts: 5
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since i almost always take colour photos (and edit them b&w later on if i fancy it), then colour.
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