Photography Challenge - Selective Color

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A big thanks to everyone who joined in with the water photography challenge last month.

So for this month I thought we could try something different and go with a selective color challenge.

If you would like some tips on selective color photography and basic Lightroom editing then this article will point you in the right direction:
https://digital-photography-school.com/selective-color-more-dynamic-images/

And you can also find some inspiration over on Flickr:
https://www.flickr.com/groups/scolor/pool/

This is not a competition so there will be no winners announced, it's purely for fun and self-development.

Simple Rules:
  • Canon cameras only please
  • Please don't post more than 3 separate posts, multiple images may be included in a single post.
Have fun!
 
It's the 12th and no takers yet?

There was a big fad of doing selective color editing back when digital cameras first hit the market for consumers and the software became available and user friendly. Everybody and their brother/sister was doing selective color photos. Now I think a new generation is 'discovering' it and calling "color pop" or "color splash" using apps just for this purpose when it's quickly done using Adobe.

This was just for fun. Please - somebody put up something worthy of the challenge? 😁


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This reminds me of one of those photos you get in a new picture frame haha. It's definitely not my particular favourite style, but they look striking sometimes.
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Here is a quick one I threw together in the office today. I really enjoy the monthly themes as it requires me to think about it and get out and take a shot. It's never about what I have I already shot but what I can get out and shoot. Don't seem to spend enough time behind the camera these days :(
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It's the 12th and no takers yet?

There was a big fad of doing selective color editing back when digital cameras first hit the market for consumers and the software became available and user friendly. Everybody and their brother/sister was doing selective color photos. Now I think a new generation is 'discovering' it and calling "color pop" or "color splash" using apps just for this purpose when it's quickly done using Adobe.

This was just for fun. Please - somebody put up something worthy of the challenge? 😁


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A little late on this one - just didn't get a good subject until this weekend as I wanted a real(ish) selective colour

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A little thread necromancy, but this is one of my favorite early edits when I was just starting to figure out raw files and seeing what DPP4 can do. I was also enjoying the close focusing of the RF 35 f/1.8.

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The most difficult part of this shot was trying to hold perfectly still as being both the photographer and the model. Also, at the time, I only had one tripod so I had to balance my EOS-R w/24-70mm on a rock as the R5 was on the tripod.

I chose Orange because of the shirt, tripod and L-bracket.

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