Color vs Colorless

I am a big fan of black and white photography. Not only i think of it as more classy than color photography but it also has taught me about contrast and helped me develop more patience in the darkroom. I thought I was a huge fan of color photography when I first started just because I was more attracted to the fade colors and the intensity created by playing with color, but little did I know that I was soon going to be seduced by Cindy Sherman's work. That's when I fell hard for black and white photography and basically decided that photography was what I wanted to do.
But really what makes black and white better than color? Or color better than black and white? I think its a personal choice on how you want to display your subject. But the emotion of black and whites is undeniable but that doesn't mean color is missing it.
I think its a fair tie.

Color Twirl

I've done many color wheels before, once in high school and in my first year of college back home. They're never fun, very tedious and I have serious problems with being clean and perfect. It was pretty automatic for me to mix colors right, even though I'm very used to wasting a lot of paint and mixing with my brush. But this time I was a tad cleaner, even if you can't tell and I'm kinda proud.

I actually enjoyed it, even though I went trough a whole ordeal with finding the paints since I used Amanda's for this project. It was nice to do it with paint instead of Prismacolor pencils, I hated to have to sharpen my pencils every 20 minutes.
But overall it was an ok project, I got to refresh my color technique (even though I know I'm far from being done with it) and finally grab a brush after such a long time.

The Colors Man! The Colors!

Our first assignment for our class we had to go out into the world and find colors. My group figuring out that everybody was heading for the nearest Safeway, decided to head out to the party store. I found myself a tad confused with the true meaning of colors, if there is one. The color red was the most popular there, raging from Valentine's day cards, hearts, USA flags and devil stuff. It was also popular in the "Chinese" decorations section. Pointing the obvious red is a very popular color. Red I can't help but associate with the red chakra point in our bodies, this one represents our sexual organs. Red has often been used as the color of passion and can also be related to fire (fire+passion= hot passionate something?), then I wonder how is this related to the USA flag? I should research that more.


I also found the most disturbing image ever. I hate Spic and Span, for some reason I find it a bit degrading. I've been called a Spic and even the whole thing Spic and Span( you know being puertorican). And I've always wondered, maybe I'm overanalyzing this, but the bottles for this product have very bright, tropical colors, some that obviously latinos are going to like, feel attracted to and remind them of happy times home. Maybe they are bright orange, yellow and purple because they want us to feel the need to buy it and clean. I think I'm rambling but hey I might be right. For osme reason Spic and Span is not sold in Puerto Rico or Mexico (that I know of).