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Phoenix Park
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Mick,
Thanks for sharing the thought process behind your photography/image making, it all makes perfect sense and I see exactly where you are coming from,
One thing that jumped out at me was your reference to “colour psychology” as this isn’t something that I had thought about (as I said before I’m really new only have my camera since July). What do you mean by this? Is it something like the use of colour to deliver a message/impart a feeling/mood?
D.
Mick451 wrote:
Decided to take Jack the long way home today through Phoenix Park rather than use the M50.
Great shot Mick, hope there’s no noise and it sahrp, really one to be proud of if theres not!
Regards,
John (new guy!)
Mick, if I said yellow shift, would that mean anything to you?
There’s a dress sale on at Brown Thomas’?
What do you mean by this? Is it something like the use of colour to deliver a message/impart a feeling/mood?
Aye, came across it when I was starting out as a designer and it helps when you’re trying to come up with a colour palette for designs and logos and whatnot. I think both versions of this shot convey different moods, but the only thing that’s been changed is the colour. I have a shot of my son and his cousin (20mths & almost 3yrs) walking away from the camera, I muted the hell out of the colours and overlaid a dull brown on top – the reaction I got from the image on Flickr was positive, but the viewers felt sadness and a sense of gloom about it. Fact is, the two lads were running around like the loons they are and having a blast. What I wanted to portray was entirely different…and it interests me the way emotional buttons can be triggered just by the use of colour.
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/colors1.html
http://www.pantone.com/products/products.asp?idArticle=112&idArea=16
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/65725/the_skinny_on_color_psychology.html
http://www.colourlovers.com/Mick – I had alook at your Flickr gallery (which I really like by the way) and I spotted the image you are talking about above…..Secrets please? How did you mute the colours? I’d love to know how to achieve this effect.
Paperdoll, the image started out very high contrast and partially washed out – used the in-built flash after the sun had gone down. After I opened it up I sharpened the hell out of it (unsharp mask: 75% / 150 radius / 2 threshold…unsharp mask: 75% / 2 radius / 2 threshold…filter > sharpen) then hit it with this photoshop action I downloaded a while back: http://www.swisswuff.ch/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=48. Then stuck some muted brown and warm brown layers on top and set to either darken or overlay. I faff about a lot and don’t really record what I do unless I make a point of doing so. I tend to also use an adjustment layer / channel mixer to create a black and white layer above the colour original and then set the B&W layer to 80% or so…mutes the colours loverly like.
Nice image Mick,the trees really frames it well and i like that you have included people as to add perspetive and scale to the image.Its a tad oversaturated for me a cokin N-grad would be enough to warm it and i would love to see what a large panoramic would look like. Otherwise its a fab image.
Ben
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