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Closeup of red berries on black and white background. I thought it interesting to see the various different stages of decay of the berries- some are almost new ranging right the way through to rotten.
The day was quite bleak in general and even without the black and white background there was a clear contrast between the red berries and the comparatively dull background. I like the black and white background as I think it gets the best of the contrast.
I used Photoshop Elements to change the background to B&W by selecting the berries with the quick selector, doing an inverse selection and changing the swapped area to B&W. I am very much a beginner but this seems to work well for me.
I think the top right of the image is too bright but I wasn't sure how to tone this down without affecting the rest of the shot.
Comments appreciated.
Exposure : 1/250
ISO : 100
Aperture: f/2.9
| Title: | Berries |
| Username: | 
Lensomatic |
| Uploaded: | 8 Apr 2010 - 12:37 PM |
| Camera: | Fujifilm Finepix J37 |
| Lens: | built in |
| Recording media: | JPEG (digital) |
| Tags: | Berries, Black & white, Close-up / macro, Flowers & plants, Red |
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You've found an interesting subject here but shooting against the bright sky has left it somewhat in the shadows. A bit of fill-in flash would have brought the berries out better, I think. I've posted a mod using Paint Shop Pro's simulated fill-flash. I've no idea how it works or if other editors have anything similar but it shows the effect, in any case. 
I also sharpened a bit. The original seems to be well focused but it looks like you didn't sharpen after resizing to upload here. Because sharpness depends on pixel-level detail that gets lost when you resize, you should always sharpen afterwards.
I'll mention that I'm not a fan of the selective colouring but that is just my personal opinion. As you say, the background does look quite flat so the selective colouring does come across as fairly natural in this shot.
Hello, Aaron, and welcome to the site. Whilst you had the background selected, you could have either given it a colour hue or darkened it a little so that the bright area became less distracting.
Pamela.
Thanks for the warm welcome.
@ David - thanks for the great feedback. I think your version is def an improvement and really makes the red 'pop'. I shall investigate similar features in Photoshop.
@Pamela - simple solutions are always the best. Don't know why I didn't think of that!
Cheers for your input.
Aaron
I don't mind what you have done in general - quite interesting. I do agree that the berries are a little lacking in impact and the mod improves quite a lot.
This is a record shot rather than pictorial so, whilst I quite like selective colur effects, possibly not the thing for a record.
Paul
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