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05/07/2004 04:52:52 PM · #1 |
Opinions very welcome...good or bad.
Message edited by author 2004-05-07 16:53:46. |
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05/07/2004 04:55:23 PM · #2 |
| It really hits me! Something very engaging about it, yet it is so simple. I am a sucker for the color on B & W, also. Wish I could do that! |
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05/07/2004 04:58:19 PM · #3 |
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05/07/2004 05:02:09 PM · #4 |
| Those are beautiful Faidoi! I especially love the windmill. Wish I were accomplished enough to use PS or whatever you used. I am still struggling with my editing skills or lack thereof!!! |
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05/07/2004 05:08:22 PM · #5 |
This darkroom technique can be very compelling under the right circumstances. However, like other techniques, there is a tendency for it to be overused at DPC which is understandable... we are all here to learn. (I've tried out overused techniques myself. :) )
I've never seen this but somewhere I think it would work well is an image of a house fire where only the fire is in color. A greyscale of the rest of the image is an easy metaphor for how the victims of the fire feel about their lives as they watch.
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05/07/2004 05:11:15 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Kylie:
Those are beautiful Faidoi! I especially love the windmill. Wish I were accomplished enough to use PS or whatever you used. I am still struggling with my editing skills or lack thereof!!! |
Actually this is very easy and you can even use it for the basic challenge if you take the picture correctly.
Quick tutorial -
-Hue/Saturation
-Choose the color you want to take away and switch the Master color to the one you want to take away.
-Move the the saturation bar all the way to the left and the color changes to greyscale.
-The color that you don't move the bar to the left will of course stay there and the picture will be desaturated.
-Done.
So many other ways of doing it but this is the probably the easiest and least controllable way. |
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05/07/2004 05:12:31 PM · #7 |
Matt, that's a cool shot. Here's my 2 cents... the many grass blades everywhere adds texture to the photo, but also some hard lines that leave your eyes buzzing off in many different directions. I'm visualizing a shot where the bug is crwling up one blade of grss or a stem of a flower or a stick or something with the grass in the foreground and background blurred... the bug is in a shallow depth of field... it helps isolate the subject while still leaving the other elements in.
I would also try to fill more of the frame with the subject... just to try. It's just as well to leave the subject small (like it is now) and use the negative space of the rest of the frame for aesthetic / dramatic pleasure.
But I do think the hard lines of the grass are distracting. Play around with different surfaces / DOF. Even put the bug in unnatural seetings... like on a bottle rim, car hood, or office supplies.. you get my drift.
You could do a whole lady bug study... tour with the bug.. get your picture taken together at all the great landmarks. :-) |
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05/07/2004 05:15:55 PM · #8 |
Faidoi: I tried playing last night with my hue/saturation controls in two programs (neither are PS) and I couldn't get just one color to react.
Stdavidson: I agree! All can be over done, but they can also be so striking. As a beginner, I would like to learn my favorites, like this. I have seen fire photos like you are describing and they are very powerful. My parents lost a home to fire years ago, and I was in So Cal last year during the raging fires. |
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05/07/2004 05:16:56 PM · #9 |
kylie, its very easy.
take the image into ps and use the lasso tool to select what you want in color. then goto select-->inverse. then goto image-->>adjustments-->>desaturate. of course, you must start with the color image. try it. let me see what you come up with.
also, i know what you are saying stdavidson, but let me put another spin on it.
yes, we ARE all here to learn, especially me. but im getting tired of hearing the terms "that technique is so 90's" or "overused technique".
black n whites were used in the 1800's and they are still effective today. no one goes around saying b/w's are "overused".
i think the tendency is that people here become jaded. you look at sooo many photos that we cringe sometimes at a perfectly good photo or piece of art because some element of it strikes us as familiar...
as i've said before, i'll take "overused" over "that photo sucks" anyday. if its a good photo, its a good photo. period. i think if people take each photo unto itself, they would get a lot more enjoyment out of them instead of looking at them for techniques used THEY think are overdone. funny, but im new here so to me this technique is very new and fresh. i hope i never get so jaded that i pass up a great photo just because i think its "overdone".
peace. |
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05/07/2004 05:18:30 PM · #10 |
| ibWhaples reply is much more educated than mine. I see the point of the hard lines. I went back and lokked and this is one of those personal things -- that's one of the things I like best about it. It makes them look like they are dazzling to me. |
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05/07/2004 05:21:25 PM · #11 |
This one is for lbWhaples
And i LOVE faidoi's "Blue"
Message edited by author 2004-05-07 17:22:50. |
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05/07/2004 05:22:32 PM · #12 |
| Mattstorrar -- I unfortunately don't have PS and am still intimidated by it (I know, I'm a wimp!). A lot of PC applications come naturally to me almost, but graphics are an uphill battle for me to learn for some reason. And YES -- over-used is over-used! I still love seeing the beauty of flowers each and every time, but I don't want all the entries here to be flowers! And same with anything else. I always comment when someone takes what could have been same old/same old and makes it look fresh again to me. |
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05/07/2004 05:24:52 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by Kylie:
Mattstorrar -- I unfortunately don't have PS and am still intimidated by it |
Look for PS Elements the basic, user friendly version of Photoshop. Excellent program for those that feel Photoshop is too difficult. Plus if you want to move to Photoshop it not too difficult. |
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05/11/2004 11:48:30 AM · #14 |
Matt, what happened to the links? I can't see the picture you posted for me :-)
While we're sharing.. and since it pertains to Faidoi's study... here's my highest rated and favorite pic I've posted to DPC:
//www.dpchallenge.com/image.php?IMAGE_ID=17379 |
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