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Originally Posted by lns_731
Ok, thanks for the advice. I just have one question (i'm new, so please bear with me)... for example in wedding portraits a lot of the time they use selective coloring to only color the bride's bouquet, is this wrong? What is the correct use of selective coloring?
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I might have gotten a little high and mighty with my response. I don't know that there is a right and wrong way to use selective coloring. I just think that selective coloring should be done for a purpose, not just because it can be done. In your image, I don't think the yellow shirt is of any particular importance. However, if it's his lucky shirt that he always wears when playing pool or something like that, then maybe the selective coloring of the shirt and the billiard balls makes sense.
In your example about the bride's bouquet, the colors and flowers that a bride chooses are definitely very important to her, so that seems to fit my (admittedly made up) criteria. Another example is a recent photo I took of my newborn daughter stacked on a pile of white towels. I loved the way the photos looked in black and white, but like many newborns, gender is pretty much a guess unless they're dressed in pink or blue, so I used selective coloring on the pink ribbon I had used to keep the towels together so that the viewer knew definitively that it was a girl.
Hope that helps and came across more respectful (I re-read my comment and realized it sounded kinda arrogant).
Mike