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Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: eskimo2 on May 12, 2007, 02:00:59 PM: Lately I've spent way too much time playing around with a "High saturation/full color people on high contrast black and white landscapes" - black & white color - dodge & burn effect.

Here are my favorites:

(http://hallbuzz.com/living_color/family_bw_color.jpg)
Near Gold Cord Lake ~ Hatcher's Pass & Independence Mine - Alaska - 2006

(http://hallbuzz.com/living_color/joan_anni_snow_bwcolor.jpg)
Near the cross at Hatcher's Pass & Independence Mine - Alaska - 2006

(http://hallbuzz.com/living_color/cabin_bwcolor.jpg)
Cabin at Hatcher's Pass & Independence Mine - Alaska - 2006

(http://hallbuzz.com/living_color/familiy_self_portrait_bwcolor.jpg)
Trail above Independence Mine at Hatcher's Pass - Alaska - 2006

(http://hallbuzz.com/living_color/britta_fish_bwcolor.jpg)
Brigitta examines a weird fish on the Homer Spit - Alaka - 2006

(http://hallbuzz.com/living_color/upper_lake_bwcolor.jpg)
Gold Cord Lake ~ Hatcher's Pass & Independence Mine - Alaska - 2004

(http://hallbuzz.com/living_color/mat_glacier_bwcolor.jpg)
On Matanuska Glacier - Alaska - 2004

Here's a link to all 22:
http://hallbuzz.com/living_color/living_color_1024.htm
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: mandingo on May 12, 2007, 02:44:13 PM: ick
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: Sandman on May 12, 2007, 03:46:24 PM: Nice editing... :)
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: Holden McGroin on May 12, 2007, 08:47:28 PM: I thought the Exxon Valdez didn't do that much damage...
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: DiabloTX on May 12, 2007, 08:49:32 PM: So, Alaska is just a living Ansel Adams photo?
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: Ripsnort on May 12, 2007, 09:00:13 PM: The colors are too bright. Lighten the color (back it off) and you've got a winner. Softening the pics will help it too, IMO.

I sell "colorized B/W" photos with both B/W and Sepia for about $25 a piece for 8x10's. (I have tons of examples)

You've already shown B/W background examples, don't shy away from sepia...the mother of this kid below paid $75 for a 16x20 print that cost me $6.25 and about 10 minutes of my time:

(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/8668097/252162224.jpg)
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: Sandman on May 12, 2007, 09:14:33 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Ripsnort
The colors are too bright. Lighten the color (back it off) and you've got a winner. Softening the pics will help it too, IMO.

I thought they were good as is... I assumed that they were deliberately saturated.
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: DREDIOCK on May 13, 2007, 12:36:12 AM: Look!
Its "Colored People"!!
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on May 13, 2007, 02:28:43 AM: It looks cold down there Eskimo. I've always wondered why people continue to live in cold countries.

Still haven't figured it out. :)
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: Ripsnort on May 13, 2007, 07:41:16 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Sandman
I thought they were good as is... I assumed that they were deliberately saturated.
Oh! okay. Sorry Eskimo, I thught that thar was the reel color. I'm gettin beter at reeding thugh! :)

Eskimo, you got a damn good looking family. Your daughter in the backpack is just as cute as a bugs ear.

Just wishing you lucky with all that estrogen flowing come the teenage years.:O
Title: Re: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: Furball on May 13, 2007, 08:22:32 AM: Quote
Originally posted by eskimo2
(http://hallbuzz.com/living_color/familiy_self_portrait_bwcolor.jpg)

I love this one, your daughter is so cute with that cheeky little grin on her face :).
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: DYNAMITE on May 13, 2007, 08:44:17 AM: Great shots Eskimo!

Love the editing effects :aok
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: Halo on May 13, 2007, 09:12:04 AM: Interesting effect. Ain't playin' with digital wonderful?
Title: how do you do it?
Post by: Eagler on May 13, 2007, 11:02:09 AM: do you have to mask off the ppl from the background?
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: eskimo2 on May 13, 2007, 11:45:12 AM: Quote
Originally posted by MrRiplEy[H]
It looks cold down there Eskimo. I've always wondered why people continue to live in cold countries.

Still haven't figured it out. :)

Yea, MrRiplEy, Alaskans should move to some place tropical like Finland. Helsinki has got to be at least 100 KM South of Anchorage. :)
You’re not one of those poor bastards that doesn’t live on the South coast are you?
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on May 13, 2007, 11:52:47 AM: Quote
Originally posted by eskimo2
Yea, MrRiplEy, Alaskans should move to some place tropical like Finland. Helsinki has got to be at least 100 KM South of Anchorage. :)
You’re not one of those poor bastards that doesn’t live on the South coast are you?

Thank heavens no I live on south-east coast. But I wouldn't mind relocating say 2000-3000km further south. :cool:

But unfortunately mediterranean is awesome for vacations, bad for work.
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: eskimo2 on May 13, 2007, 11:53:34 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Ripsnort
Oh! okay. Sorry Eskimo, I thught that thar was the reel color. I'm gettin beter at reeding thugh! :)

Eskimo, you got a damn good looking family. Your daughter in the backpack is just as cute as a bugs ear.

Just wishing you lucky with all that estrogen flowing come the teenage years.:O

Thanks Rip. Girls are typically cuter than boys, when they’re not crying that is… which really isn’t all that often.

We’ve learned to dress everyone in the brightest clothes we can find when we hike in Alaska; I like how they show up in pictures. I’ve boosted the saturation in some of these pictures, my old Canon pocket camera would usually undersaturate. Some of them are almost normal though.
Title: Re: how do you do it?
Post by: eskimo2 on May 13, 2007, 11:58:29 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Eagler
do you have to mask off the ppl from the background?

Yes, it’s just the same picture in color with a masked/transparent background over a black and white copy. Here’s a “Black & White Color - Dodge & Burn with MS Paint - How To”:

http://hallbuzz.com/living_color/living_color_how_to.htm
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: eskimo2 on May 13, 2007, 12:25:14 PM: Many of these pictures are very grey to start with. I like the contrast in pictures like this one where Brigitta is brightly dressed and everything else is pretty flat and grey. Below is the unedited original (cropped and resized though). Below that is the altered copy.

(http://hallbuzz.com/living_color/britta_fish_color_640.jpg)
(http://hallbuzz.com/living_color/britta_fish_bwcolor_640.jpg)

I like what turning up the saturation does for people’s skin, hair and clothes; but I also like landscapes like this in high contrast black and white (Ansel Adams-ish). It brings me back to my B & W film/lab days. This is a way to get both.
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: Furball on May 13, 2007, 03:15:51 PM: Also... what the hell is that fish? looks prehistoric!
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: midnight Target on May 13, 2007, 06:23:13 PM: looks like a monkfish maybe.

Very tastey
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: Flatbar on May 14, 2007, 02:29:32 AM: Quote
Originally posted by midnight Target
looks like a monkfish maybe.

Very tastey

Ling Cod, butt fugley but great tasting.
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: midnight Target on May 14, 2007, 07:24:36 AM: (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Monkfish.jpg)
monkfish

(http://www.ceepeeceelodge.com/images/lingcod.jpg)
ling cod
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: texasmom on May 14, 2007, 09:39:17 AM: I am always interested in seeing your posts & family pictures ~ I'm from Alaska too. Fantastic photos of the family up there. =)
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: eskimo2 on May 14, 2007, 04:41:15 PM: Quote
Originally posted by texasmom
I am always interested in seeing your posts & family pictures ~ I'm from Alaska too. Fantastic photos of the family up there. =)

No kidding? How long ago did you leave and where did you live?

I grew up mostly in Anchorage but also lived in: Juneau, Cordova, Wasilla, Houston, Homer/Anchor Point and Fairbanks. Alaska was home from 1965 to 1994. Since then home has been Hawaii, Colorado and now Ohio.
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: texasmom on May 14, 2007, 07:15:17 PM: Quote
Originally posted by eskimo2
No kidding? How long ago did you leave and where did you live?

I grew up mostly in Anchorage but also lived in: Juneau, Cordova, Wasilla, Houston, Homer/Anchor Point and Fairbanks. Alaska was home from 1965 to 1994. Since then home has been Hawaii, Colorado and now Ohio.

Nice ~ I didn't live there long. My family is from Deering. But I lived in Anchorage & Fairbanks when I was a kid. And they're scattered all over Alaska now.

Saw the Dimond HS stuff ~ I think one of our horrible babysitters tossed my little brother in the pool at that school once.
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: ChickenHawk on May 14, 2007, 07:33:57 PM: Cool trick Eskimo. I especially like the one with the weird fish.

Always liked selective color photos but never did one myself. I checked out your how-to page figured I'd give it a try.

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f93/hawk_fw/San%20Francisco/PublicMarket.jpg)
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: texasmom on May 14, 2007, 07:35:58 PM: Quote
Originally posted by ChickenHawk
Cool trick Eskimo. I especially like the one with the weird fish.

Always liked selective color photos but never did one myself. I checked out your how-to page figured I'd give it a try.

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f93/hawk_fw/San%20Francisco/PublicMarket.jpg)

Nice job!
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: eskimo2 on May 14, 2007, 08:04:33 PM: Quote
Originally posted by ChickenHawk
Cool trick Eskimo. I especially like the one with the weird fish.

Always liked selective color photos but never did one myself. I checked out your how-to page figured I'd give it a try.

(http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f93/hawk_fw/San%20Francisco/PublicMarket.jpg)

WOW! That’s awesome! Is that Pike’s Market in Seattle?

Did you use my silly MS Paint method or did you use better software with some filter to shut down all colors but red?
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: Ripsnort on May 14, 2007, 08:34:30 PM: Quote
Originally posted by ChickenHawk
Cool trick Eskimo. I especially like the one with the weird fish.

Always liked selective color photos but never did one myself. I checked out your how-to page figured I'd give it a try.

My shopping center once a month! ;)
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: ChickenHawk on May 15, 2007, 12:23:51 AM: Quote
Originally posted by eskimo2
WOW! That’s awesome! Is that Pike’s Market in Seattle?

Did you use my silly MS Paint method or did you use better software with some filter to shut down all colors but red?

Yep, that's Pike's in Seattle.

I used Photoshop Elements 4. Using layers is faster and more versatile than saving each step in Paint and there is a little tool called the magic wand selector that saves a lot of time. But basically it’s the exact same technique you use. I just masked all the red and made the background black and white.

Thanks for showing us your work. It’s a fun technique that I will have to start using.
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: Sandman on May 15, 2007, 12:31:28 AM: On the subject of selective color, I did this a couple of months ago:

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/401462383_4c48ecd492.jpg) (http://flickr.com/photos/dotdoubledot/401462383)

Also applied an Orton Effect.
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: ChickenHawk on May 15, 2007, 12:40:09 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Sandman
On the subject of selective color, I did this a couple of months ago:

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/401462383_4c48ecd492.jpg)

Also applied an Orton Effect.

Awesome! I love the clarity of the scene in the glasses and the surreal Orton Effect in the background.

Well done.
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: eskimo2 on May 15, 2007, 06:27:09 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Sandman
On the subject of selective color, I did this a couple of months ago:

(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/401462383_4c48ecd492.jpg) (http://flickr.com/photos/dotdoubledot/401462383)

Also applied an Orton Effect.

Very nice! I had to look up the Orton Effect; I like it.
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: BigGun on May 15, 2007, 06:59:17 PM: I have to come up to Alaska in July. Someplace called Aleyska Resort in Girwood. Looking forward to that business trip. Is it near Anchorage?
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: eskimo2 on May 15, 2007, 08:15:13 PM: Quote
Originally posted by BigGun
I have to come up to Alaska in July. Someplace called Aleyska Resort in Girwood. Looking forward to that business trip. Is it near Anchorage?

Alyeska is the place to ski in Alaska. Here’s what it looked like 15 years ago:

(http://hallbuzz.com/good_old_days/flight/alyeska_1_1024.jpg)

(http://hallbuzz.com/good_old_days/flight/lodge_1024.jpg)

It’s a great senic drive, about 30-35 miles.
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: Gumbeau on May 15, 2007, 08:27:12 PM: Alyeska Resort has one of the most scenic bars in the world.

Its in the restaurant at the top of the lift. Sit at the bar and enjoy a world class martini.

A bit pricey but worth it.
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: BigGun on May 17, 2007, 10:37:01 AM: Wow, that looks good, actually looking forward to this business trip.
Title: Bright People in Grey Alaska – A fun photo effect
Post by: nuchpatrick on May 17, 2007, 03:42:03 PM: Great stuff.. I think its the best Vacation spot around.