Farm visit

[danoliver1]

 

[danoliver1]

What do you think? Does the selective colour work?
Pity it just wasnt my son in the pic think that would have looked better.

 

[ElDude]

It's crooked, is the first thing that immediately springs to mind, and selective colouring rarely works unless done in a subtle way. Unless there's an actual relevance for the selective colouring I rarely use it.

I suppose it depends on what you're going for really, but I'm not really a fan of it's use in most cases. The above photo seems to have no need for it and as I'm a black and white fanatic, I'd make the whole image B&W and tinker with levels.

 

[wire-screw]

I don't think selective colour has ever worked to be really honest. What are you trying to achieve with it? Separation between the people and cows? I think there are far less obvious, clever and deeper ways of doing it that would yield a far more interesting image.

 

[Phal]

I don't mind the selective colouring and straightening out the shot just takes a few seconds

I quite like the shot but maybe it would have been better with the kids face in it but who knows

 

[JBuk]

The selective colouring confuses the shot IMO, the focus is on your family because of the colouring so it kind of feels like a portrait except they're not facing the camera, yet it's taken on a farm so you're distracting the interest away from the cows ,etc

 

[bazzabear]

Aren't cows black and white anyway?

To me, the selective colouring makes it look like the people are being pulled out into a more modern age.
If the farm looked archaic in some way, I reckon that would actually work really well - but the modern tractor in the background ruins it.