Colour Change C&C

JM MARCONI

Hello everyone. Just wanna know what you think of these pic. I changed them using Lightroom. Cheers

Balfey1972

very different indeed. I like them alot.

alexandros

JM MARCONI wrote: »

Hello everyone. Just wanna know what you think of these pic. I changed them using Lightroom. Cheers

I have always liked the concept!
And although it has been over commercialized in greeting cards.
(It's usually a red rose on a b&w background)
Your photos are more interesting than that.
Is it possible to boost the colors on a couple of the photos to make them "pop out" a bit more??
Or is that something you were purposely trying to avoid?
Either way.. well done!

- Where did you get to ride elephants?

smelltheglove

I really like the paint bucket one, I would like to see 1 and 3 inversed, I reckon they might be a little more vibrant that way but thats prob just me.

I do like the concept and do a fair bit of it business wise, a lot of clients ask for a similar effect. I also like a bit of desaturation in stages too, where a shot is desaturated and then one particular colour tone is enhanced or even dropped further, gives a slightly different aspect on the idea of miessing with the colours.

JM MARCONI

Thanks for the comments. The elephant pic was taken in Chang Mai, Thailand.

When I get home il have a mess around with them using both of your suggestions.

Lobelia Overhill

very nice - I like yer man standing on his head!

superflyninja

berry nice.quite unusual

stick-dan

The one with the buttercups must have taken you ages to do.

AnCatDubh

I've looked at these a few times to give me ample time to form an opinion (and its only an opinion - not gospel obviously). I'm uncomfortable with the images as a set but think individually some work well. Technically they represent a good grasp of the skill to provide a selective b/w.

The last image I feel is probably the best of the set. I like the colour parts of it muted with the black and white in the background. I think they work better where the background is b/w but perhaps that's a trap that people fall into conforming to the norm.

Composition wise, I feel your attempts are overly central in their focus and wonder if there would have been more interesting positioning of the subject / drawing of the eye / angles of shooting with some of the attempts. The second one is quite nice but suffers (in my opinion) from being too central in the frame.

For my take, selective colouring or b/w's should be selective in their distribution - to me, one in a while is more than enough. As mentioned, as a set they would leave me uncomfortable to be presented as such, but having said that I think if you had just posted the last one on its own i'd probably be raving about it because I do think its very very good.

I appear to be on my own on the above but its always useful to have a descenting voice in the crowd

Hope that helps.

Howitzer

refreshing pics. They could inspire others to be brave with experimentation.

Well done

JM MARCONI

Thanks again to everyone for the comments.

Thats good advice AnCatDubh. Cheers

4 more if anyones interested