Fortnightly Challenge 14 - 28 Feb 2014 - Colour Poppping
 

I have chosen 'Colour Popping' for this challenge. Colour popping is where the image is all black and white apart from one item in the image, which is coloured. There are some great examples online, both images that have been colour popped and full tutorials. I'm happy to help/answer any questions you may have. Please, have fun with this one, think about the composition and the item in the image that will be coloured as not every image would work.

Fortnightly Challenge is open to all members of WPF. The challenge will be run on (GMT) time.

Post your photo in this thread any time from 14th Feb midnight to midnight 28th Feb.

Then a 3 day poll will be placed in this thread for voting on the photo you like that most meets the brief.

Please give your photo a title.

The winner picks a challenge for the following fortnight and starts a new thread... in case of a draw the majority of members are happy with the 1st entry to start up the new challenge, which saves us having to do another vote.

1. One photo per member
2. To be taken during period stated above
3. The photo must include exif data with date and time
4. Post your entry as one attachment directly in this thread
5. No discussion of entries in the thread
6. Do not post any entries in the gallery until after the voting has finished

To create a poll :
* go to top of thread and in Thread Tools press 'Add a poll to this thread'.
[note: only the starter of this thread can see this option.]
* In the update options box change the number 2 to how many have entered.
* In each box put the title of the entered photos.
* In close poll, put 3 days.
* Submit new poll.
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DigiDiva

No comments yet on my theme...Im worried no one likes it!

The winning hard
 

The winning hard

It's a really good idea Chris. Maybe doesn't have to be mono so long as the chosen colour pops?

(To answer your concern under "old rules" comments in this part of the forum were discouraged as they made it into a "long read". Probably more entries were expected and it could have run to many pages. I only mention this because it may be why people are not commenting/discussing much here).

AH right, ok. Makes sense.

It really was the B&W colour popping I was hoping for.

Exactly what I wanted. Well done. The colour serves a purpose, emphasising the suit on the cards.

painted green
 

painted green

Trena, this is lovely. Did you do a 'Dragan' effect on the wrinkles and crinkles

PopPeroni
 

Doh!!:D------------------------------------

Nice shot peter

Coloured Sentinel
 

Almost 'Fog' coloured?

Hellebore
 

Spring colour - and am unconventional approach to colour popping.

Roses are Red

Yellow peril
 

Some folks just have to draw attention to themselves :-D

This Is My Entry For This Week
 

The Sands Of Time

Albums
 

I just noticed - they are all from the 70's - how sad

9 entries this week, that's good.Time almost up, I wonder if there's more to come?

Well done Clive.

Well done Clive,an excellent,very strong contender and deserved winner. Myimage deserved what it got, zero,as I was very pushed for time and only managed a last minute token entry.

Up - Yellow Peril - Nice idea and composition just felt it didn't have the punchit needed to be a forerunner.

Down - Grassface - Another great idea but (personally only) felt 2 pictures might have had more effect. Less is more as they say. But its only my opinion.

Thanks Guys - a close run thing

Ups & Downs

Up - Hellebore by Nigel G - I liked this and a less conventional approach to colour popping. For me I'd have liked to have seen the definition/selection between the popped flower and the background to have been sharper/more clearly defined.

Down - Yellow Peril by Graham - Again I liked this but for me it was a bit too busy with the background buildings drawing the eye too much. I'd maybe have tried a crop to include the litter bin front left, across between the Boots & DP sign & to just inclde the Cafe west sign on the right

Behind The Scenes

Knowing my penchant for multi layered images, Nigel assumed that all the rose leaves had been Photoshopped in afterwards but actually they were done in camera with two helpers throwing handfuls of silk rose petals while I tried to time pressing the button - it only took 4 goes to get that shot. Then it was just a matter of using colour range to create the selection and adding a black & white layer - simples :)

congrats Clive, clever idea.

my up was John, a classic colour pop image, well done
my down was Peter,well done on the pp, just didn't pop enough for me.
I think my image was lost in all the wrinkles lol.

look forward to the next challenge, shame we don't have more people taking part and also voting.

Well done Clive

Well done Clive - you're also my down. On closer examination the petals on the bed clearly aren't a separate layer but most of the ones in the air lack sharpness round the edges which is what made ne originally think this was another of your clever compositions.

Up is Coloured Sentinel - your own comment "almost fog coloured" I think indicates the lack of contrast and maybe therefore impact in the mono selections. I think I would also have cropped so the lighthouse was a bit more to the left bringing the coloured top piece onto the upper right third intersection.

Well done Clive, as you are my 'up' let me combine my congrats with my comments. Not at all critical just complimentary. I was a first class production. I confess to assuming that the petals were an add-on so now I'm doubly impressed that they were taken as you described.

My down is DigiDiva. Your shot didn't deserve to get no votes, if it's any consolation it was on my short list, but the text put me off - it's only a personal thing. Nicely taken and processed with awesome sharpness it was really a very good entry.

Graham