The use of "Spot Colour" in photography ?

[Old geezer]

But the colour of the stone today will not be the same as when it was freshly quarried. Hundreds of years of oxidation and other chemical reactions will have given the stone a patina.

 

 

A patina, which in it's own right as a near mono back ground is preferrable to grey......

Edited December 9, 2012 by Old geezer

[corydoras]

A patina, which in it's own right as a near mono back ground is preferrable to grey......

Err, I think I'm with you on this one mate. I fail to see the point in having a photo that is half B&W and half colour.

[Phone]

Cory,

 

I think it is an abstract they are talkng about. What is "pleasing" to the observer. For example, I like fat girls.

 

Phone

[kirisute]

for the stained glass the change from black and white/sepia to full colour is too garish and jarring for me.

If it was me I would fade the black and white/sepia into the colour of the windows...forming a kind of colour halo as if the light through the windows is providing colour illumination to the rest of the image.

does that make sense?

[Colin Brett]

This is doing the rounds on Facebook [sorry for that admission] I actually quite like this one.

 

[kirisute]

This is doing the rounds on Facebook [sorry for that admission] I actually quite like this one.

 

nice idea..but real poor photoshop skills which ruins it for me.

[Old geezer]

At risk of being flamed.........

 

I often get the impression of mono and "gimmicks" in photoshop serve mainly as an attempt to make a poor photograph good. It doesn't. A sharp, well exposed picture wins every tim IMHO.

 

OK, some subjects almost demand mono, but not all.......