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Subject: Question on Selective Color...from old Challenge Entry

TomDart opened this issue on Jan 04, 2007 · 7 posts
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TomDart ( ) posted Thu, 04 January 2007 at 9:58 PM · edited Thu, 01 August 2024 at 5:40 PM

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The first is from and old challenge entry. All is greyscale. The second has a bit of selective color added. Please let me know which you prefer.

I was going through older gallery images and this is one. I thought to possibly make it more effective with adding a touch of color.  Green food coloring and pancake syrup was used for the the original...there was some real blood from the rose thorns but not enough for the shot.

Sure, a different background would have helped but this is what I have and selective coloring is the point of my asking...any suggestions on putting in some red or leaving it all greyscale?

Any thoughts are appreciated.      TomDart.

TomDart ( ) posted Thu, 04 January 2007 at 9:59 PM · edited Thu, 04 January 2007 at 10:04 PM

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This is the one with some color added.  Thanks for any thoughts.  TomDart.

Oh, the title is something like "love me, smell me, feel me"... not pinball wizard but similar method. And, real blood was on the one at the lower thorn, dug in.  Ouch..what a thing to do for a photo!  

babuci ( ) posted Thu, 04 January 2007 at 10:31 PM

ooouch Tom! It is hurt! 

1st shot is for me a bit too much contrast what nicely dimmed down on a 2nd picture. I very much like an idea with a blood, but for me to say grab it as a favorite a blood need to be red as a red can be!! Looks brownish for me, unless it is red just my monitor need to calibrate....LOL.
My title would be  " Love is hurt ". So yeah my vote is 2nd!

seeya  Tunde

Boofy ( ) posted Fri, 05 January 2007 at 5:07 AM

I too like the second one, the first one is too glary (very unprofessional discription I know but that was the thought). At first I agreed with more vivid colour but then I looked again and the muted colour sort of grew on me (pardon the pun). It looks more 'aged' as if it has been fading with the other B/W colours but not quite gone yet. Now go to the freebies section and get yourself some antiseptic and band-aids my friend before a R'osity 3d dracula comes for a drink! Oh I like the background too. fills in the space without distracting from the shot. 

inshaala ( ) posted Fri, 05 January 2007 at 11:06 AM

like the second one too - but would concur with Tunde - blood needs to be more red, if the rose was red maybe you could bring that colour back too for a bit "extra"...

"In every colour, there's the light.
In every stone sleeps a crystal.
Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:
Man is the dream of the Dolphin"

Rich Meadows Photography

TomDart ( ) posted Fri, 05 January 2007 at 10:09 PM

Unfortunately, I can't find the color version.  The selective color has to come from painting! That is not something I am very good at.  If anyone wants to give it a try, go ahead with my encouragement.

The input is quite helpful.  What I see is so often not what others see in any particular image...different thoughts open the box a bit.         Tom.

TwoPynts ( ) posted Mon, 08 January 2007 at 12:18 PM

The sheet in the back might look nice if you went with a very dark green color for it. Just a thought. BTW, like the new bunny Avatar. :) ~Kort

Kort Kramer - Kramer Kreations

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