Desaturated and then paint colour back in

[shellby]

I wanted to discuss this method further. It was brought up in a previous thread but it was in the Classifieds section and covered Heyrad's dodge and burn and so on...

I have attached images I found on a photographers site just for reference.

I love this method and I am actually after some images of this genre to play with - any photographers out there?

[nvstyle]

I am a photographer and love this work, I would love to learn it.

[shellby]

Hi

Check out the thread on "silver light" we have been trying out different techniques - something like this one.

[nvstyle]

check out this guys site:
http://www.musecube.com/mick/

[gmitchel]

My article on B&W conversion in the current issue of PBase Magazine includes a long discussion and demonstration of how to allow color to "peek through" from underneath a B&W conversion.

http://k41.pbase.com/pbase_magazine_vol3_oct2005.pdf

Cheers,

Mitch

[snook305]

Shelby, Nice Examples... I think we or someone needs to post a Good "Before" picture. That seems to be a lot of the problems here in the forums. We need a good picture to start from nothing. Granted that technique does not work on just every type of picture. Especially beauty and model type pictures, They seem to work better on Rappers/Old people (dragan) or odd looking Characters! It is hard to acheive this look with "Pretty" people.
Also It seems to work much better with the rappers I think do to the Dark skintones? Not sure.
Anybody have a wanna be rapper buddy they they can take a snap of!!
Snook

[buchner]

Originally Posted by snook305

Shelby, Nice Examples... I think we or someone needs to post a Good "Before" picture. That seems to be a lot of the problems here in the forums. We need a good picture to start from nothing. Granted that technique does not work on just every type of picture. Especially beauty and model type pictures, They seem to work better on Rappers/Old people (dragan) or odd looking Characters! It is hard to acheive this look with "Pretty" people.
Also It seems to work much better with the rappers I think do to the Dark skintones? Not sure.
Anybody have a wanna be rapper buddy they they can take a snap of!!
Snook

Bringing this topic alive again, I just made a photo session with a rapper in my studio, and maybe it would be a good "resurrection" for this thread... what do you guys think??

Please drop me a line, and I send a pic for you, Shelby.

Ricardo