black and white with colour (part 2)

Hi all

I took the advise from my previous post of making a photo black and white but keeping some parts as colour, its not nearly as hard as i thought it would be, just quite time consuming, anyway....

here are some photos i did today, i am very happy with them and i would like your views on them
(i have also posted these on the samples and galleries forum)

thanks
Joe

for this one i changed the colour of the whole photo so the raindrops looked blue, made the new layer black and white and erased the raindrops, i think that the rain might be a little too blue but i kept the image in .psd so i can change it again if need be but i like the heavy tones of blue



in this one i played around with it and made it all b&w except the fly, then i made the leaf colour and the bee and background b&w but after all that i decided this one looks the best, it really brought the colour out in the fly because in the origional picture it didn't look very colourfull.



What do you think???

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Hi Joe,

Nice job. I am one of those that like to mix color and b/w too.
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I think you should select a subject, like the raindrops in the first or the fly in the second and desaturate everything else...

Here is one that I did sometime ago...



... You should also try for lots of contrast in the B&W sections...

Jim

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Hello

I have done that in some wedding shots I did for a friend in South Africa - April 2005

http://www.photoboxgallery.com/pedlar

My first attempt at wedding photography!! I was not the official photographer.

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Hey all
thanks for your replies

I like this type of photo but i think you have to be very selective about what photo's you use for this type of shot. i think people look good in these shots (like the girl in the red coat on the film shindlers list)

Joe
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I really like the fly picture - well done!

thanks marian

looking at it more i have started to like the fly picture more and more....

i am glad you like it and there will be more to come soon

Joe

MarianBarbarian said:

I really like the fly picture - well done!

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