Breaking Free

Michael Freeman Photo School -

Digital Editing Three -

Image Retouching

 

Task Two - Adjust Your Colour

 

Colour is an extremely subjective component in photography and will always involve some creative decision making. Your personal colour preferences are likely to be a major influence in your photographic style. Have a think about your colour preferences before you start this assignment: do you prefer bold and saturated or a muted, nostalgic effect? Is a warm glowing colour cast more pleasing, or a cooler, bluer tone?

For this challenge, explore the different options available in colour adjustments and experiment.

 

• Start conservatively, it's easy to get carried away

• Don't hesitate to adjust a hue if it doesn't represent the original scene as you remembered it

• Don't forget the colourisation option in the HSL panel, particularly for black and white conversions - it can be very effective at communication certain moods

 

Response

 

This image of a chive bud was taken on a very bright, sunny day which has resulted in a rather luminous background. I dropped the exposure down and did the usual corrections with shadows, highlights etc before focusing on the colour. I wanted a fairly muted look as I feel it worked better with the subject matter than a bold approach. I wanted to emphasis the details on the flower head while having a background that complimented it and I feel the tones here work much better than the bright yellowy green I had originally.

Done