More Selective Colouring

[Iguanasan]

Saw some of the selective colouring shots recently and thought I would take what I thought was not a very interesting shot and see if the selective colouring would make it more interesting. I think it did. Your thoughts???

[Marko]

The truck looks decent (a bit too saturated or lively for my personal taste, but still decent)

The rest of the image though is quite muddy and could use a medium sized contrast boost imo. Hope that helps - Marko

[tirediron]

Hmmm... to be honest, this one really doesn't do much for me. The technique is well executed, but the image just doesn't have the grab to pull it off.

[Iguanasan]

The truck looks decent (a bit too saturated or lively for my personal taste, but still decent)

The rest of the image though is quite muddy and could use a medium sized contrast boost imo. Hope that helps - Marko

My PP skills are quite lacking. What do you mean by "quite muddy" and a "medium sized contrast boost". I really don't understand what you are saying but I want to understand. I've heard you use the "muddy" term before but I really don't get it. Can you explain?

[Marko]

Muddy means greyish (at least to me). When people say a print is muddy it refers to a low contrast image (as opposed to an image with a full range of tones). So for me, a medium contrast boost, means it needs considerably more contrast as opposed to a ton or a wee bit.

If you are familiar with b/w darkroom printing we used filters to adjust contrast. In this case, if you used a #2 filter I'd suggest a 3 1/2.

In this case for this print, everything besides the truck needs more contrast imo.

Hope that makes sense - Thx Marko

[Iguanasan]

I boosted the contrast and the brightness to, hopefully, make it less muddy. I think I begin to see the difference. I mean I can definitely see the difference between the two photos, but I'm not sure I can recognize what the issue is to start yet. Is this closer?

[kat]

It makes thing jump a bit more imo. When you can see all the shades between black and white without them all being in the same range it brings out the photo.