Thoughts on "Color Splash"?

[GreatPhotoRace]

I don't mind it so much in advertising photography. That's it. It's tacky in every other setting, in my opinion.

 

[Joey_Ricard]

I think selective color images have a place like a lot of alternate styles of photography. I've seen and used selective color mostly in nice portraiture work but I think it looks more appealing when it is subtle. (think of a portrait with that porcelain look). Customers like it, so I have used it. I have seen a lot in advertising that I thought were very creative.

 

[GnipGnop]

The cup of beer looks like is has condensation on the outside and is making the beer look flat, on top of what everyone else said.

As for the artistic merits of colour selection: as with all art, the use of and opinion on the technique varies from piece to piece. Also, ask yourself who you're creating the art for? If it's for yourself, why do you care what other people thing? If it's for other people, you should find out what they like before you create (in general).

 

[adversus]

People who say selective color is stupid and shouldn't be used are akin to those who said digital is stupid and only film photography is "art". Selective color is a tool, and any tool when done too much can become passe or lose it's impact. I've taken tens of thousands of images and I can count on one hand the number that I've used selective color on, this one being one of my favorites:


Focus on Protection by adversus.us, on Flickr

 

[unpopular]

Not a fan of selective coloring. Like other said it rarely looks good but I think it's a phase pretty much all new photogs go through.

When I was a teenager, I saw images like these at a poster display in a local drug store:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-pJzfSCdigg/TDXSAiOkwHI/AAAAAAAABIY/5r2uQ0rxy90/s1600/kids-kiss.jpg

That was enough for me. I have very, very rarely seen this effect used for anything short of novelty. Possible? Perhaps, but so seldom appropriate.

ETA:
The above post is no different IMO.

 

[adversus]

Not a fan of selective coloring. Like other said it rarely looks good but I think it's a phase pretty much all new photogs go through.

When I was a teenager, I saw images like these at a poster display in a local drug store:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-pJzfSCdigg/TDXSAiOkwHI/AAAAAAAABIY/5r2uQ0rxy90/s1600/kids-kiss.jpg

That was enough for me. I have very, very rarely seen this effect used for anything short of novelty. Possible? Perhaps, but so seldom appropriate.

ETA:
The above post is no different IMO.

That's the thing about art, just because you don't like it doesn't make it invalid.

 

[jowensphoto]

IMHO, selective coloring is a gimmick for selling to people who don't know any better.

This reminds me of a recent post in a different part of the forum. Just because people will buy (what I feel is) crap, doesn't mean that it's good photography or "art".

 

[adversus]

If people buy it because they like it, then the creative process that created it has been validated. That's like saying McDonalds isn't food even though they serve billions of people around the world.

 

[unpopular]

lol. that's like saying McDonalds sells good food because millions of people around the world buy it!

It's a fallacious assertion anyway:
Argumentum ad populum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


To which, all I have to say is:



Though, I admit I still have a crush on Baby Spice.

 

[jowensphoto]

Which is why the above is only my opinion. I get that some people dig it, but to me, it feels cheap (most of the time).

Validation and success are not equal to quality.


Funny you mention McDonald's. Either you know which thread I was referring to or it's just ironic.

 

[jowensphoto]

Though, I admit I still have a crush on Baby Spice.

No idea why, but Sporty was always my favorite. Complete butterface (or as my bro would say "a fifty yarder"), but those backflips are pretty wicked lol

 

[unpopular]

yeah, well ...

 

[jowensphoto]

I hate to admit it, I watched the spice girls movie the other day... shhhh!

 

[o hey tyler]

I hate to admit it, I watched the spice girls movie the other day... shhhh!

Say it isn't true!

 

[unpopular]

Some of their album stuff isn't all that bad. Campy, definitely - and not good enough to discredit my assertion above - especially since people who bought the albums would just play Wannabe on repeat for weeks straight.

But the songs you you would hear on the radio are just HORRIBLE.