September Challenge - Selective colouring. Part Colour part B&W

[Don]

Suggested by Grant. Let's see what you've got. Here is something from the archives to start.

[Adamphotoman]

Don, Good start, and exactly what I had in mind. I think it is a nice transition from the August B&W theme.

So Don. Was this digital or did you hand colour?



I have shown these before, however, they fit the challenge....





The wedding shot is from 40 years ago before digital when a small sable brush and coloured dye was the only way to produce this effect. Actually I started by Sepia toning just the ice cream cone and the coke can. That way I had a warm base colour to start. That was selective toning.





   







The bee is a blending of a colour image and a grayscale image. Much easier. No chemicals. Just layering a B&W on top of a full colour image, then erasing away the gray bee to reveal the coloured bee.







   

[Adamphotoman]

The part of this challenge is that I appreciate is the creative side of it. One can play around and like a cook. Please "Season to Taste" , And Play and play

Subtle or not so subtle for impact 
This one is on the subtle side:


   

[Dreamin]

WOW! Grant!  All of these are great. The couple, it makes me want a drink and ice cream!  That bee really pops!  Although I really like the landscape....it may be a tad too subtle....can you get more color in that cloud?

Here is mine.....sorry if some of you remember my shots from you know where.....but I am not able to get out to shoot new shots right now so have been looking at my archives for photos to manip....
Opps, is this streaking on the playground? I could not find the clothes.....maybe some of you are aware, kids like to strip clothes off of dolls, and lose them....I made this for my daughter back in the late 70's.


   

[Dave]

This sounds like fun. It sure is off to a good start: wilderness, candid portrait (I like the edge treatment), a golden bee visiting a flower, a grand scene that combines dramatic and subtle, and a large Raggedy doll that makes us smile. Well done Don, Grant, and Natalie.

My photo below (from my backyard 8 to 10 years ago) may be stretching the definition of "selected color" a bit, since that usually means just one color is chosen to be displayed. The background was a lovely blue-gray, similar in hue to the metal rod the little hummer is perched on. But as pretty as the background was, it seemed just too much blue. So I thought the photo would be a good candidate for this challenge. I desaturated and lightened the entire background. Unfortunately, this accentuated the noise in the photo, but you can't always have everything work the way you want.

   

[Luv2shoot]

Yes, definitely a good start to this Selective Color Challenge.
Don, I always like that photo and think that it is perfect for this challenge.

Natalie, Thank goodness we have sliders in our software that make it easy to create selective colors like the reds in your Ragged Andy Image.  One of my favorite photos of yours that also was sort of selective color was the one taken at an entrance desk to a hotel (or something like that).  The blacks and whites were so sharp and then there was a vase of red flowers.  If I remember correctly, it was a "natural" selective color.  It was so good though, I hope you post that one again here in this challenge.

Grant, Love the bee. Selective color definitely accentuates that subject. But because of the nice highlights, you still notice the pretty flowers. 
The landscape photo looks like the sky is blue and the clouds are orangy, did you mean to keep two colors?

Dave, I think desaturating the background also works really well for this hummer composition.  Pushing the boundaries on this one paid off. 

I like it when these challenges give me an opportunity to go through my archives and use some images that I passed on previously but feel that they may now satisfy the challenge. However, when I took this photo several weeks ago, I thought this would make a very good selective color composition not knowing I would get to use it so soon.

[Dreamin]

Hmmm....I did not think this challenge meant just ONE color...it says... Part Colour part B&W...and that's how I took it for......
Really makes the hummer stand out, Dave!  Good one!
Another great shot, Lorell...so sharp!  and cool repetition (would make another good challenge) Well done!  Is that a bikes for rent stand??
so, since I took it for "part color" and not "one" color....here is another....

   

[Don]

Good start to this one, well done all.

Nice ones Grant. I like the subtlety of all three shots.

The doll really pops, Natalie. And the sharpness and bright colors are great on the toy train.

I like the hummingbird Dave - and I agree with Natalie, we don't have to stick with just one color. Much more interesting when more than one color is highlighted on a B&W image.

This is from quite some time ago and the original was taken with a low resolution camera, but I have always liked this image so I decided to use it. This was taken one morning in Singapore.

I need to research on how to clean it up with Topaz Gigapixel. I tried a couple of times but did not see any marked improvement.

[Dreamin]

I agree, Don, it is a nice one! Those booths really pop! I was just thinking the other day, are there still phone booths around? I don't remember seeing any anymore!! or if I did, they were broken. Times, they are a changing!!

[Dave]

Very nice, ladies (Lorell and Natalie). Colors, sharpness, values, composition are all excellent.

Don, you posted as I was looking for my usual typos. Another beauty: the reds and rusts look great, and I especially admire the values in your photo.

I revisited another favorite from my archives: a Monarch butterfly on a blanket flower, taken maybe 10 years ago in the front yard.

The blanket flower was beautifully patterned and had vivid colors, and even though it's a favorite photo I think the strong colors of the flower dominated the photo, stealing attention from the Monarch.

So I re-edited the image this morning: cropped differently, de-saturated all but the butterfly, tweaked brightness and contrast of the Monarch and the grayed background layers, and did a final slight bump in saturation of the butterfly...