Hi everyone,
I don't normally edit any of the photos I take, but I had some free time the other day and decided to play around with isolating some colors in some photos. Feel free to post you honest opinion!

1. Purple Room


2. Empty Swing


3. Theater Seats


Also, I was wondering if anyone had any tips on how to get the following look in a photo. I can't really describe the look but it seems like the saturation, contrast, etc. have been altered in Photoshop; I was wondering if anyone could give me any specifics. Thanks!

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All credit goes to my buddy Jake Croop for this image (http://society6.co...etched-canvas#6=28).

I like selective colour shots like the first one, especially if the colour is something unusual.

That last pic looks very much like a Photomatix job. It is a program that automatically combines three photos of different exposures together into 1 photo. The program is literally just 'drag and drop' three photos and hit the process button. That result that you posted looks very much like the default setting too. If you use torrent sites, you'll find Photomatix without a problem. It is also much easier to get a result like that if your camera has an auto-bracketing setting, where it will take three different exposures at the same time. You can pull off the effect without an auto-bracketing setting, but inevitably you have to touch your camera slightly to change to a lower exposure and a higher exposure for two more shots, and even the slightest jiggling (even with a tripod) will make the photos just slightly off of one another, which results in a slightly offset overlap when Photomatix combines them together. Although the program does have automatic settings to try and align the photos perfectly, there's always some slight blurring.

I recently posted a thread with three photos combined together with Photomatix to give a final result. It is here:

http://www.uer.ca/...=1&threadid=118891

I'm loving the mannequin head shots! Pretty cool ass find I'd say!

Overall I think the editing suits the tone you're looking to achieve or has created a tone to your work.

I think the first 2 pictures are nice, but the 3rd pic is extremely boring. I'd rather see the rest of the theater than a few blue seats sitting in a dark theater room.

the first one is good..the second is just meh..and i think the third one has a ton of potential. The empty black space is great and so is the single source of light on the upper level seating..you just need to find a way to harness it better. I would check out the angle your shooting from..maybe add some contrast..and also what kind of camera are you shooting with? Looks like there is some noise that could be gotten rid of in the third one

Thanks for the link Ground State; that was very helpful. I would agree with your assessment that the final photo looks like Photomatix. It looks like my camera has AE settings but cannot take three pictures with different exposures at the same time. I'll have to play around with it in the future.

I'm loving the mannequin head shots! Pretty cool ass find I'd say!

Yeah those mannequin heads were one of the coolest and creepiest parts of that building. There was one perched on a ledge 15 feet up and every time I would see it out of the corner of my eye, it would scare the shit out of me!

and also what kind of camera are you shooting with?

I use a Canon Powershot SX 120 IS. It's not the greatest camera for high quality shots but it usually works pretty nicely. Since I'm just getting into editing my photos, I'm not really sure how to reduce the noise but I'll look into it. I never paid any attention to this stuff before, I would just point and shoot!

As for the third photo, I would agree with you ChasGirl that there's a lot more that could be done with it. I'll keep messing around with it.

Thanks for the input everyone!

The whole selective saturation thing has become somewhat of an overdone cliche.

#1 is not very interesting. I would have played with placing the camera differently to create a more interesting perspective.

#2, the swing is cool but the background takes away from it. You've got a lot of almost-overlapping lines between the foreground and the background, which makes it confusing to look at.

#3 is badly underexposed. Conceptually though, I really like what you were going for.

That last photo is an HDR.
http://en.wikipedi...amic-range_imaging

HDR is another overdone photography cliche... But it's a good technique to learn, and use subtly! The example you shared is pretty good though.