Building site - Selective Colour photos

[furtive]

I took a couple of photos over the weekend of a building site which seemed perfect for the selective colour treatment

[Fetchez la vache]

LOVE those. They look great
Haven't tried selective colour - how do you do it? is it using PhotoShop? - I'm just starting out with it.

cheers

[TonyHetherington]

I think they work really well, good black and white too. I take it you did duotone rather than just "convert to greyscale"

[Conian]

Good art work on the pics, but did those chaps know that you were watching them and secretly enjoying it?

You're like Bill Oddie, only with workmen

[furtive]

Fetchez la vache said:

LOVE those. They look great
Haven't tried selective colour - how do you do it? is it using PhotoShop? - I'm just starting out with it.

cheers

Thanks

I did these using Picassa because I couldn't remember how to do it in Photoshop

TonyHetherington said:

I think they work really well, good black and white too. I take it you did duotone rather than just "convert to greyscale"

I converted to greyscale, then tweaked them to make the blacks a bit blacker

Conian said:

Good art work on the pics, but did those chaps know that you were watching them and secretly enjoying it?

You're like Bill Oddie, only with workmen

They had no idea I was watching them *pats 70-300VR lens*

Edited by furtive on Monday 12th November 11:26

[jagdpanther]

Nice shots, the fluro orange works well


I lurve using selective colour









Works for motorsport too

Edited by jagdpanther on Monday 12th November 11:46

[Scho]

Fetchez la vache said:

LOVE those. They look great
Haven't tried selective colour - how do you do it? is it using PhotoShop?

cheers

no...

what you have to do is carefully cover the the parts of the scene you want to be in colour with masking tape and newspaper make sure you are in a well ventiliated area..... sorry couldn't help myslef ;-)

[scotty328i]

More selective colour

[Fetchez la vache]

Scho said:

Fetchez la vache said:

LOVE those. They look great
Haven't tried selective colour - how do you do it? is it using PhotoShop?

cheers

no...

what you have to do is carefully cover the the parts of the scene you want to be in colour with masking tape and newspaper make sure you are in a well ventiliated area..... sorry couldn't help myslef ;-)

Ah, rats. So THATS where I've been going wrong

[jagdpanther]

scotty328i said:

More selective colour

Nice!

[matthew_h]

Arghh, I really hate spot colouring. Really really hate it.

One of those effects that really annoys me.

[beano500]

matthew_h said:

Arghh, I really hate spot colouring. Really really hate it.

One of those effects that really annoys me.

- let's get some more up then!!!


"Bryce Canyon - Hoodoos as far as the eye can see!"


Here's one I did only ten minutes ago - just before I found this thread.

But Spot/Selective Color is all right - as long as it is in small doses

[jagdpanther]

beano500 said:

matthew_h said:

Arghh, I really hate spot colouring. Really really hate it.

One of those effects that really annoys me.

- let's get some more up then!!!


"Bryce Canyon - Hoodoos as far as the eye can see!"


Here's one I did only ten minutes ago - just before I found this thread.

But Spot/Selective Color is all right - as long as it is in small doses

Very nice

[ThatPhilBrettGuy]

matthew_h said:

Arghh, I really hate spot colouring. Really really hate it.

One of those effects that really annoys me.

+1

It's like using one of those really curvy handwriting fonts on webpages etc etc. It shouts 'look how clever I am at using a computer' when all it really says is 'ok, it's not a great picture and I'm desperate to make the pixels worth looking at'. Shame it's used really, as most of the pictures posted here, if they had not been tainted with it, would stand up on their own anyway.

Photoshop effects. The crayons of the photography world...