Blooming Water plant Flower's.

HFF!

Portrait

Looking for graphics and selective focus

ODC - Photoshop terms - selective colour

ODT - Seeing red

Art photo print.

Brighton Beach, Victoria.

52 weeks of 2021/ week 11 selective colour

52 in 2021 challenge /31 in camera processing

Original Beach Huts print in comments.

We have a new Apple computer. Sally has been trying to convince me for years that the Photos program that comes with the newer machine has more capabilities than the 10+ yr-old one we had.

I purposely posted this in close proximity to the original shot (which was pretty close to straight-out-of-camera). I was showing Sally, last night, the photo-editing functions I had tried so far, and ran across one called "selective color". I selected (chose) a color (in this case green), and then manipulated everything that was that color while leaving the rest (here, the pink and orange of the purple conflower) the original color. I think the altered green gives more of a feeling of depth.

When I think of the shenanigans Sally and I used with analog film, in the close space of the darkroom (involving "dodging" with her hands & mine together) to deemphasize an area of a photo, or lighten just one portion... I feel like a dinosaur. I already knew I was way behind the curve regarding digital photography processing, but I have to say it is nice to work on a photo with a cup of coffee in my hand rather than breathing fumes and working in the dark.

Since the camera and I were having issues with selective coloring, I decided to do one by hand...LOL !!! The color should be a little more on the purple like the one I have in my Set...

DDC- Ears & Dare To Be Different

I don't do selective colour often, but I thought I'd try it today.

Alle Crode del Longerin - Dolomites

Happy "Looking close... on Friday!" with "jewellery (selective colour)"

... and thank you so much for your views, faves and comments! :-)

Active Assignment Weekly, Feb 8-15: The Color Red. Dare-Try Selective Focus

Northern Cardinals are a regular visitor in my backyard, and since it was extremely cold this weekend, this was actually taken from the warmth of my kitchen window. I love how red he looks against the empty trees. The woods look so lonely and we live in a sepia world this time of year, so these birds are a happy sight!

I used Lightroom to desaturate and clean up the photo a bit.

Looking close on Friday theme: Jewellery (selective colour)

Thanks to everyone who took the time to view, comment, and fave my photo. It’s really appreciated. 😊

coloring

Tone mapped in Photomatix. Selectively desaturated in Photoshop

I'm not a good Juggler but I thought that the apples may be good for the theme.

Taken using selective colour effect.

Happy sliders sunday people!

I was with Victoria when we found this ant. Somehow, Victoria froze the ant in place and he wouldn't move, letting me take a picture of him.

Selective coloring!

Liverpool

We went to SFMOMA (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art) to see the special exhibition of Andy Warhol. Very interesting to see the big variety of art Warhol created in his life. The reflections on the floor caught my eyes when we left.

I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, merged them selectively, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, then desaturated the image. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.

-- ƒ/4.0, 50 mm, 1/6 sec, ISO 100, Sony A7 II, Canon 50mm f0.95, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC0088_hdr1bal1pho1f.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

Infrared tree as the mist lifted on Dartmoor

#35 Selective colour in black and white

52 weeks of 2025- Selective colour

It was a very drizzly grey day, so I played a bit with selective colour! View up the river in Looe

A photo of my table lamp, turned black and white, with the brass stand and light inside the shade bought back to the correct colour.

Little barn and Thor's cave catching some early sun

After dinner we walked down the Las Vegas Strip. This is near the Bellagio Casino facing south.

I processed a balanced and a photographic HDR photo from a RAW exposure, merged them selectively, and carefully adjusted the color balance and curves. I welcome and appreciate constructive feedback.

Thank you for visiting - ♡ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, like the Facebook page, order beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.

-- ƒ/5.6, 22 mm, 1/5 sec, ISO 200, Sony A6000, SEL-P1650, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, _DSC5607_hdr1bal1pho1g.jpg

-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

Vegetable gardners consider these little Spotted Cucumber Beetles to be pests, but for me, they are a bright spot when they occasionally show up in the flowers. Decided to process this selectively.

Dame Alice Owens, Potters Bar.

think good light is the most important thing in photography. I started taking pictures with harsh lights and most of my pictures were ruined and I don’t like them anymore. I prefer cloudy days because we can find even light in all scenes. The sunrise and sunset also provide very good light, but not in the afternoon because it creates harsh light. Taking pictures in different lights improved my photography skills. Now I understand where and when I shall take pictures to achieve the best light.

Photographer Michael Aponte uses our TLT ROKR tilt-shift adapter to create lovely selective focus images like this. For this image, Michael used a Canon FD 24mm f/2.8 lens and adapted it to his Fujifilm X-T4 with our FD to Fuji X TLT-ROKR adapter, using the tilt effect built into the adapter to selectively focus on this sleepy cat. Click here to learn more about our tilt-shift adapters: fotodioxpro.com/collections/tlt-rokr

And click here to see more Of Michael's work: www.flickr.com/photos/michaelaponte

I like the detail and colours on the little blue boat when isolated

Beetle

Red.