The use of "Spot Colour" in photography ?

[Old geezer]

Think I prefer the original.........

[Snatcher]

Think I prefer the original.........

 

Here is another one I have just had a play with - again Beverley Minster but different windows. You have got the before and after. Did not lens correct at all as I was quite happy with the original image.

 

 

 

After all this play about I am still sitting on the fence over this

 

John

[snakey1]

Personally I prefer the originals but thats just me.

[Steve Walker]

I know what spot colour is in CMYK printing. What is it in photography?

 

Digitally editing a photograph so that parts of it are in colour when the rest is monochrome. Think Schindler's List and the girl in the red coat.

 

Maybe you select a region to show the colour through, maybe you pick a colour and make everything else monochrome.

[Old geezer]

This is a personal view only.

 

I think the stonework was decided by the builders to accentuate the beauty of the building and the colours complement the windows perfectly

 

Nuff said probably

[ayjay]

Here you go Ayjay,the original of Beverley - spelt correctly this time

 

 

John

 

I prefer that one Snatcher: interesting that it's almost a sepia pic.

 

I quite like the effect in the most recent one you posted, with the darker stonework it looks better (to me) than the first one.

[corydoras]

Digitally editing a photograph so that parts of it are in colour when the rest is monochrome. Think Schindler's List and the girl in the red coat.

 

Maybe you select a region to show the colour through, maybe you pick a colour and make everything else monochrome.

Pulling out bit planes in other words?

[Steve Walker]

It can be that kind of thing in effect, though that is probably not the literal operation. In a photo-editing program, you create two identical layers from a colour image. You make the top one monochrome and turn regions of it transparent on the basis of whatever criteria you find artistically appealing. In the shots of the car on track, I think I selected all regions in the bottom layer which fell into a red/orange colour range (the brake lights and traffic cones) and then changed the active layer to the monochrome one and made the selection transparent, but I could equally have picked them out by hand.

 

This kind of thing:

 

Youtube Video ->

[corydoras]

This is a personal view only.

 

I think the stonework was decided by the builders to accentuate the beauty of the building and the colours complement the windows perfectly

 

Nuff said probably

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. Edited December 9, 2012 by corydoras

[Clifftop]

I prefer the originals, i've tried this a couple of times and found the item in colour is a better if it's a small item.

I think it gives more of an impact, but that just me. lol