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The use of selective color can greatly increase the emotional connection to the image you are creating, but be aware of what emotions you may be creating. Here is a collection of wonderful selective coloring photographs that will obviously make your day fresh!!
30 Photos
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These are beautiful – the girl in the red jacket reminds me of Schindler’s List. But my favorite is the long exposure on the carousel – gorgeous! Thank you for sharing them with me!
goooooooooooooooood
Superb images,, really well done to photographers!
great photography…
These are absolutely horrible. Such a poor way to use selective coloring, these are prime examples of how NOT to use it. Pointless, distracting, overused, sloppy. Just look at the duck. All of the previous fit in that picture alone. The only one that almost works is the leaf in the palm. The Red Roses one with the girl smelling the roses is in the right direction, but it’s too boring. Sorry to be such a negative nancy, but I hate selective coloring that isn’t done right, and that’s rarely the case.
Thank you for using one of my images in your top thirty! I am thrilled and honoured.
Totally amazing.
the colors have been way over done less is more with this. the one of the blond girl would have had way more effect with the Asian boy turning around colored instead, and the little girl with the balloons only the balloons should have been colored, also the cats eyes instead of the berries would have looked good. subtlety is the trick here
As it automatically drives viewer’s attention to the colored area and there’s no other colors to balance the composition, using this sort of effect must be very precisely tuned in saturation, colored area/elements and contrast, to get away from the very tiny border between elegance and mediocrity. I believe both sides are sampled here, what is nice for visitors. Good selection work.
Just fine photos. Excellent pictures and the qualitative technics.
I have to say I’m not a huge fan of selective colour. On the other and I find b&w photos to be an absolute pleasure and often much more interesting and full of depth. A good b&w photo doesn’t need tricks to attract the eye, as I can see in some of the examples here. A bad photo is a bad photo and no tricks will save it.
wow
awesome piece of art work, m really impressed
I love the little girl dancing in the rain! The coke bottle is nice as well.
I agree with Stranger. Some of these are utterly hideous photos, and should be titled “30 WORST examples of selective colour”.
For me, the only ones that come close are the two of the leaves, especially the ‘Leaf in Palm’. The butterfly almost gets there too.
The more I think about it, the more I think this must be a wind up.
If your photos are on here, well done for someone thinking they are good, but keep practising the photoshop, and come to think of it, the photography.
Not quite sure who edits this page, but they should have gone to specsavers.
Sorry.
Oh, and in case you thought ‘Schindlering’ was cool (yes, there is a nickname for ‘Selective Colouring’) – check out this link:
http://bit.ly/d2uOxK
You should be ashamed of this pointless waste of pixels. For real Schindlering by masters of the art you should visit my site.
http://www.derekpyephotography.com/index.php?option=com_hotornot&task=top&Itemid=10
It’s called Schindlering by professional photographers.
Derek, you are a dipshit. You were on to something pointing out that these were not examples of the ‘best’, even though you were pithy, hostile and arrogant in doing so. But, you? A “master of the art”? Hah! With the exception of the photo of the little girl being escorted by the Nazi (which you didn’t take, you just schindlered), your work is sophomoric at best. Like a 10th grader that rides the short bus with a crayon!
Thanks Kelly. How do you know I didn’t take the Nazi Photo? It would seem that you are eating out of a massive bowl of sour grapes before eating a big bag of those sour wine gum – perhaps it’s because you can’t Schindler? Still I appreciate your kind comments.
Oh yeah, because what a valuable skill Schindlering is. The only people that look at a photo that has been Schindlered and think it’s a good piece of art are those with no eye for photography whatsoever, who obviously don’t expose themselves to art very often. It’s pure gimmicky kitsch.
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