6/14/09

I'll play the de-saturated game



Here are two samples of a manually focused night image. The original and a de-saturated version. Thanks to my failing eyesight they weren't focused at all. However, I still liked the image.

4 comments:

Product Superior Jenn June 15, 2009 at 12:10 AM  

Darn! I could have sworn they were a little sharper. I do still like that the plants on the right are mixed with sharp and blurred.

It's weird to see how the color in the bottom image looks on my screen versus what it did on y'alls—and god knows there is no telling how it's looking on a pc. I like the top image better, but knowing what it looked like in person, it's like the left side light could be toned back. This was definitely a tricky spot and tricky light for taking a photo.

Mhudson June 16, 2009 at 11:22 AM  

I like the top one! to completely contradict my post!

There are just so many cool color relationships in the original. The green of the plants to the pink'ish cast of the poles on the right side.

The brick that starts off slightly brown'ish and fades to that blue.

artificial light does some wild stuff, i love night photography

I wonder what a slightly less desat treatment would produce if you tried to keep some of those relationships?

Product Superior John June 16, 2009 at 5:29 PM  

Both nice. I'm not sure it was necessarily out of focus. My shots of that came out looking soft as well in exactly the same areas. It has to be some kind of optical illusion with the light, clouds and brick patterning. Very cool and some very funky lighting.

Moo! June 16, 2009 at 9:45 PM  

I have to say, I think I actually prefer the bottom one. While the top is a very nice shot –and I'm definitely a person that usually goes right in for the colorful stuff more, the bottom one gets more of a reaction out of me. I actually feel how creepy the atmosphere is. The top one has great colors but I don't feel 'threatened' at all. Which is why I'd say the bottom is more successful since it actually evokes something from me.

Especially with the movement of the clouds, this looks like something that horror movies pay and spend an enormous amount of time to get in post production while you've just managed to get it with one click. good stuff.