House Ball sculpture in Bethlehemkirchplatz, Berlin, Germany
To put emphasis on a subject on an image, I usually:
1. compose the image and place the subject following the rule of thirds (99% of the time, I compose while taking the shot
but on some occasions, I do this during post-processing, through cropping), and/or
2. shoot with a big aperture opening to separate the subject from the foreground and background, and/or
3. find a point of view wherein the subject is seen with a plain (undistracting) background, and/or
4. process the image using selective coloring technique.
In this image, my goal to put emphasis on the sculpture, so I did number 1: composed following the rule of thirds subject placement. I did not do number 2 beacause
I wanted a pretty big depth and I wanted optimal sharpness, I shot this at f/7.1 (which is also my 10-22’s "sweet spot" as they call it). There was no way that I can
do number 3 because the sculpture is situated on a busy street, plus I intended to shoot it with buildings as its background to give some hint of its size (for scaling).
Finally, I did number 4: processed the image using selective coloring to make the subject stand-out further.
In Photoshop, I selected the sculpture using the Quick Selection
Tool. Then, I right clicked on the selection, chose select inverse, right click again, chose feather, and entered 1 pixel for feather radius.I added a black and white
adjustment layer and tweaked the colors to produce the effect that I wanted.
There are different ways of doing the selective coloring technique and the best thing is that tutorials are published online for free! š
Posted by Carmelo Bayarcal [Picturesque Pilipinas!] on 2010-07-11 04:31:20
Tagged: , hausball , House Ball , sculpture , Bethlehemkirchplatz , art , Berlin , Germany , Deutschland , Berlin-Mitte , travel , Europe , public art , Carmelo Bayarcal
