The St. Charles Mill at Trailhead

[Reverend]

Was walking around historic St. Charles, and finally caught a shot of the old St. Charles mill with some snow on it.

Trailhead is a microbrewery in St. Charles, MO. Too bad the streets were so busy...would have made a much better shot w/out all the cars.

 

[DeepSpring]

I dont see a picture

 

[Reverend]

hmmm... I see them just fine....

 

[LaFoto]

I see them ... and I think that you chose well to highlight the "Trailhead" sign by leaving only that in colour ... blocks out the busy street just a bit.

 

[Reverend]

Thanks, I also added some vignetting to try to bring the focus in on the sign. The traffic is so terribly distracting to the photo, I pretty much tried everything to bring the viewer's focus into the sign.

 

[ahelg]

I really like the second one. Does that kind of technique have a name? I've been meaning to try something like that for a while, I've just never got round to it. I really need to find a tutorial or something like that on how to do it.

 

[EnterUserName]

Do you mean having one thing in color?.. its really simple if you have photoshop let me know if you want me to tell you how.

 

[Reverend]

The technique is called selective color.

In Photoshop, you create a second layer of the same content, convert the top layer to B&W, then carefully erase whatever you want to be in color.

Personally, I think that the technique is trite and overdone, but sometimes its the only way to bring more focus on the subject of a "busy" photo.