Red Ball, Blue Wall

[El Sid]

I was very much take with this colour combination but, boy, did I have to some post processing to get it to look how my eyes saw it. The old eyeball/brain combo is really quite clever when it comes to processing what we see...


Red Ball, Blue Wall by Nigel Hayes, on Flickr

[Farider]

Nice colour combination, what was the issue with the original that required so much correction?

Ian

[El Sid]

Cheers Ian

The shot above corresponds pretty much with how it appeared to my Mk1 eyeballs (though I probably have boosted a bit beyond that) but in the shot out of camera the wall appears almost white. I think it's a combination of the exposure - set to accommodate both the sunlit wall and the shadowed background window - and the autowhite balance overcompensating for the blue and warmed the image up a bit too much.

This shot is a blend of two conversions; one with the white balance cooled slightly to give a more natural tones to the bleached wood and the red ball and a second with the white balance and exposure heavily corrected to render the wall as the powder blue it actually is. This was then followed by a bit of fiddling with contrast and saturation to get the final result.

[John Liddle]

Well all that work paid off Nigel - a good image!

[tesarver]

Works for me

Tom

[El Sid]

Thanks for looking and the positive comments, it's always nice when the fiddling pays off...