Selective colouring – Juridicious

Poppies..

Red on black-and-white is such a cool combination of colours. Red poppies in a wheat field, memories of a summer gone by!

Continuing with the fungal theme, here’s one I thought looked a lot like a flying saucer on a stalk (maybe eating them may have that effect!). Or one of those rides in a fairground. I’m not sure of the exact mushroom type but this may be a sort of milkcap.

A teeny tiny mushroom!

The rain and the damp here in East England has meant that there is a sudden explosion of mushrooms. Large and small, normal and strangely shaped, they’re all shooting up everywhere.. Here’s a tiny tiny mushroom that was shot at the closest approach I could make with my phone! I have selectively desaturated the background for emphasis.

A black tulip

_DSC4639-Edit — Black Tulip. Click to see a larger version on Flickr.

Glowing tulip

_DSC4636-Edit — Tulip glowing in the spring sunshine. Click on the photo for a larger version on Flickr.

I took this picture at a friend’s house in Newport, Wales. This year I missed the tulip blooms in my garden as I was out-of-town over the 2 weeks these bloomed. I have removed all distracting greens from this photo to enhance the glow from the tulip. Shot using a 50mm f1.8 Nikon lens and processed in Lightroom.

Yellow bicycle

At the Museum of Liverpool.

Taraxacum – the dandelion

Field dandelions (Taraxacum sp.) photographed in the middle of summer near Hinxton, England.

P1010781 — Click on picture above for a larger version

All greens from the background were removed in Lightroom.

Red and Green

Two of the three primary colours (in RGB colour model) highlighted on this boat undergoing renovation at Albert Docks, Liverpool.

P1010979-Edit — Click on the picture to see a larger version.

Photographed at the Albert Docks area of Liverpool.

Red Landings, Liverpool

The old warehouses at the Liverpool docks. The old loading bays are painted a bright red.. Just the opportunity for a photograph. Selectively desaturated to keep the reds only.

Selective Amsterdam

I love selective colouring photographs. While this is one of the most time-consuming step of a post-processing workflow, it can breathe life into otherwise ordinary photographs. It can also be used to draw attention to a particular object in crowded field. The following pictures are my experiments with applying selective desaturation in Adobe Lightroom on a few pictures from my trip to Amsterdam 2012 spring.

P1010184-Edit — Dutch Gouda cheese on sale at the Bloemenmarkt (flower market)

Housing shortage in Amsterdam has resulted in these unique permanent water homes, with plumbing, electricity and other mod cons.

A sporty boat on one of the many canals in Amsterdam

Previously posted picture of water taxis in Amsterdam.

You may wish to click on the pictures to see a larger version on flickr. As always I look forward to comments and criticisms.

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