Interesting story on this picture. I spotted this scene on a street near where I live, in the trendy Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, around Halloween, 2001, and I snapped a quick pic with my digital Nikon 775. My first thought was that I would render it as a pure Black and White image, with the pumpkins spot-colored in a bright artificial orange. Obvious enough idea, no? But when I got it loaded up in Photoshop and started fooling around with it, I realized that it was much more interesting, and more subtle, to leave in ALL of the orange parts of the image (such as the leaves, the door, etc.). And to leave them at a natural orange level, rather than the garish primary orange I had envisioned. I think it works pretty well, and conveys the emotion that I intended, without the gimmicky approach that I originally imagined. What do you think? |
Lincoln Park Pumpkins |
Interesting story on this picture. I spotted this scene on a street near where I live, in the trendy Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, around Halloween, 2001, and I snapped a quick pic with my digital Nikon 775. My first thought was that I would render it as a pure Black and White image, with the pumpkins spot-colored in a bright artificial orange. Obvious enough idea, no? But when I got it loaded up in Photoshop and started fooling around with it, I realized that it was much more interesting, and more subtle, to leave in ALL of the orange parts of the image (such as the leaves, the door, etc.). And to leave them at a natural orange level, rather than the garish primary orange I had envisioned. I think it works pretty well, and conveys the emotion that I intended, without the gimmicky approach that I originally imagined. What do you think? |
