Here's a powerful example of color versus black-and-white the first image is a color image of the shoes that were taken from the victims in Auschwitz they were in a large storage room in the museum at the concentration camp the second image is the same picture but in black-and-white I've juiced up the color in the first image deliberately to show the life of the people before they were sent to the crematorium the second image which is powerful is that image converted to black-and-white. Color is an extremely powerful tool wielded thoughtfully adding another layer of meaning to your image by using it properly with intention