14.03.2012

TAOP 

Part Three: Colour.

Project: Black and White.

Exercise: Manipulating with colour channels.

I took a number of pictures of the beach scene at Kingsdown.  The pictures included bare wood and painted beach huts, and some small boats.  

I picked out the two with most potential for my purposes and set to work on them.  The idea was to give some dramatic effect to what are pretty ordinary pictures.  

The best I could manage for the huts picture was to turn down all the colours bar the red and leave the red alone.  This had the effect of increasing the contrast without going to soot and whitewash.

The second picture featured a lot of grass so my approach had to be very different.  After much play I found that by turning up the green and yellow,  leaving a little cyan and turning the rest right down I got an almost infrared feel to the picture.