Selective coloring or not?

I have read several articles and opinions indicating color selecting in photos is not a good thing. Just wondering why? Is there any photos that look better using selective coloring?

Selective coloring was something that was way overused in the past. It does have it's place time to time.

I always give my brides a choice of colour, black and white and selective colour, they always choose a few photos with selective colour, that answers it for me, what they want they get.

BUV wrote: I have read several articles and opinions indicating color selecting in photos is not a good thing. Just wondering why? Is there any photos that look better using selective coloring?

It's considered a bit cheesy. It has just enough gimmicky feel to be sort of a flavor of the month, and that month was long ago. The main problem is that most of the time it's done poorly, and doesn't make sense for the photo. It's done just because it can be done. The same thing is behind the backlash against HDR and extreme local contrast manipulation. I don't really understand the folks who say these techniques suck because most of the photos using them suck, or are at best mediocre. As far as I can tell in general most photographs suck, yet we aren't giving up on photography.

Color is extremely powerful to our minds and vision. There is an old art school adage: If you can't make it good, make it big. If you can't make it big, make it red. What ever you decide to colorize becomes the subject and will have very significant attraction power to the viewer. A classic example of how not to do it that I saw was a portrait of a kid in a baseball uniform. The photographer left the colored shirt and hat, and made everything else BW. The effect was to turn the kid into a ghost. The bold color of the uniform and hat made it seem like they were hovering there disembodied.

You should experiment with colorization if you like it. You will get a feel for what you think looks good, and what doesn't look so hot. In the end always compare a traditionally processed version of the photo to the selective color version. Which one really looks better?

I've done some selective coloring. I always offer it and other special effects to my brides. I tell them to let me know if they like selective coloring, or after they see the photos if they think some would look good with the effect just let me know. It's been at least 5 years (almost 150 brides) since anyone has asked me for selective coloring.

I like to keep the color toned down. Watch out for warm colors; they are powerful. I also like to stick to one color, and it has to be a major part of the photo's theme. Almost like the selective color version doesn't look too far removed from the regular version from across the room.

Henry get to the point dude.

I find it hard to read all that because (no offense) I don't care enough to read a short essay each time you want to say something.

Stealthy Ninja wrote: Henry get to the point dude.

I find it hard to read all that because (no offense) I don't care enough to read a short essay each time you want to say something.

There's got to be an ignore feature somewhere. Feel free to use it.

Henry Peach wrote:

Stealthy Ninja wrote: Henry get to the point dude.

I find it hard to read all that because (no offense) I don't care enough to read a short essay each time you want to say something.

There's got to be an ignore feature somewhere. Feel free to use it.

Just like you're ignoring friendly advice?



Normally, on forums people get to the point pretty quick. You might be new to forums so I'm just giving some friendly advice.