Is this a black and white photo?

[claytontullos]

<p>http://picasaweb.google.com/opphotocontest/BlackAndWhite#5277958455144589298</p>

<p>I entered a contest, none of my photos made into the final round, but I was surprised that this photo did.</p>

<p>To me a photo with color can not be a black and white photo.</p>

<p>I'm just wondering what you all think.</p>

<p>I have some issues with other photo's that made it to the final round... but this is my biggest complaint.</p>

[vincent_peri]

<p>Your situation is one of the many reasons I never enter photo contests. I agree with you completely that the photo you linked to is inappropriate for a B&W contest.</p>

[dana_jill]

<p>I guess they thought spot coloring was ok? Seems a bit odd that it would have been eligible.</p>

[dennis_oga]

<p>Ummm I'm new...but that photo looks black, white and yellow to me.</p>

<p>D</p>

[francie_baltazar]

<p>A photo that has anything other than what is on a grey scale - from white to Black is NOT - I repeat NOT a B&W photo.... I thought you were joking when I opened it... if this is in a photo contest I would protest unless it is in the rules you can use spot color.</p>

[jpo3136b]

<p>Wow. I'm glad I wasn't the dude who did this. This kind of situation gives me hope for the future because it shows some people are really needing some improvement out there.</p>

<p>Now, if someone asks, I can advertise "Yellow Free" black and white photos. I should probably charge more if I find out my customers expect anything different.</p>

<p>For an additional 25%, I can ship that in a "Yellow Free" mount and mat package.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, it's like this: it's their contest. Ultimately, there is going to be some rule in there that says what they say goes. I wouldn't fuss with it much further. Just blow it off and drive on to the next photo. Proceed with confidence in your own work, and eventually you will find the right viewers and have a more successful relationship with them. Ya gotta rack up your rejection slips before They publish your Great American Novel. Drive on, and don't let it get you down. And, don't be the photographer who submits a yellow photo as a black and white. That would be what traditionalists call "Color."</p>

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[john tonai]

<p>You think that's bad, look at the sensor dust on shot #6</p>

[Craig_Cooper11664875449]

<p>They're actually all pretty horrible as B&Ws, and spot colouring is just gimicky. The whole set is just more examples of digital conversions with heavily blocked up shadows which really doesnt lend itself to landscape work</p>

[stp]

<p>Good grief, I can't imagine #6 being entered in anything but a trash can in its present state.</p>

[Mark Keefer]

<p>This could have been a Black and White from the movie <em>Pleasantville</em> , and then that color started happening . :)</p>

[michael_oxford]

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<p>You think that's bad, look at the sensor dust on shot #6</p>

 

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<p>... and I thought my 1d was filthy.. jeez... someone get this guy a cleaning kit, stat!</p>

[dkord]

<p>Yes, it's odd that they allowed it in the B&W category but it's the judges decision.<br>

Only thing you can do is look over the rules again and then ask the decision makers why it was allowed.</p>

 

[Ian Taylor]

<p>Not only is it not a B+W photo, it's not a good photo. Contest would appear to be a waste of time.</p>

[craig_shearman1]

<p>If the picture were made on B&W film, printed on B&W paper and then the yellow hand-colored in, I suppose the photographer could try to argue that it was a hand-colored B&W photo. But I still would probably put in in a color category. Much more likely with today's technology that it was shot in color whether digital or film, and the color removed everywhere except the flower. So in that case it's a color photo that's had the color taken out rather than a B&W photo that's had color added in. That makes it clearly not a B&W photo.</p>

[patrick j dempsey]

<p>Vincent, I agree completely. Art contests in general are usually a total waste of time as the judges are typically picking based on personal taste and not on any technical merits. And no, this is not a B&W photograph.</p>

[oskar_ojala]

<p>It's not B&W, B&W is black and white or toned black and white photos (not spot colored). And the photo is not good anyway.</p>

[walter_strong5]

<p>Write it off, move on. Stuff happens. Life is not fair.</p>