What a grey day  by onewing

What a grey day

I have got such a busy week ahead that I have decided to put photos which I took in Newcastle on our night shoot on here as I won't get much opportunity to take photos this week.

This was taken when we first arrived by ferry from Stockton and it shows just how wet and misty the day was. I decided to convert it to b&w with selective colouring.

Today's bird photo in my topics album http://365project.org/onewing/topics/2014-02-23
You rocked it babs.. I love the selective colouring.. Xx
February 23rd, 2014  
nice bit of selective colouring Babs!
February 23rd, 2014  
Great selective colouring! Looks great.
February 23rd, 2014  
Makes a great B&W and I love the selective colouring!
February 23rd, 2014  
Super selective color capture! Awesome tones!
February 23rd, 2014  
Awesome selective colouring! Nice pop on a grey day :)
February 23rd, 2014  
Love the selective color with pop of red. Was it hot also...humid? Looks like fun place to be. Great shot!
February 23rd, 2014  
the selective colour really highlights the greyness, great pov!
February 23rd, 2014  
it is so interesting that the selective colour take away the wet misty weather away.
February 23rd, 2014  
Great spot colour
February 23rd, 2014  
Fabulous capture love the SC
February 23rd, 2014  
love the SC and great pov
February 23rd, 2014  
@mrsbaldy Thanks so much Vicki. We had a great evening even if it was a bit wet!!
February 23rd, 2014  
@marie65 @888rachel @angelat @sunraye @lilminimonka Thanks. I am a great fan of selective colouring. I was pleased with this shot.
February 23rd, 2014  
@eyesmile Thanks Gena. No it wasn't too hot but very humid. Of course, I had to wear a waterproof jacket too which made it a bit more uncomfortable. It does go cooler in the evening and it was probably around 25 degrees C (I think that is around 77 F by a quick reckoning in my head). I love taking picutres around the wharf.
February 23rd, 2014  
@heidihp @yaorenliu @scarybird @tracelee @annied Thanks so much I was pleased with the result Sorry for the group reply but it is getting late and I am off to bed. Busy day tomorrow. In fact, bush week.
February 23rd, 2014  
You do capture the greyness of the day well, and I really like the use of sc.
February 23rd, 2014  
what a cool shot
February 23rd, 2014  
cool selective colour
February 23rd, 2014  
that little flash of red is nice. great shot with nice lines
February 23rd, 2014  
It looks good in B&W but that splash of red just lifts it from the great to the superb! Love it. Fav!
February 23rd, 2014  
Great B&W image, love the composition and splash of colour. :-)
February 23rd, 2014  
Love your selective colour. Always good to know where the fire hose is. :)
February 23rd, 2014  
@dolphin Thanks Molly. It was very grey, but it was also humid so was quite uncomfortable. At least it had cooled down a bit though and was only about 25 degrees c.
February 24th, 2014  
@lafish @cljs @jaynspain Thanks so much. I didn't want it to look cold and grey because it wasn't so that is why I decided to do the splash of red. Hopefully it warmed up the scene a bit. ha ha.
February 24th, 2014  
@sturnus Wow thanks so much Carol and thanks for the fav. We had a really good outing.
February 24th, 2014  
@hermann @kathiecb Thanks so much.
February 24th, 2014  
That's come up really well Babs. Know what you mean about busy, we're in the midst of a run of being out at the golf club 7 days out of 8. Home and computer time are at a premium.
February 24th, 2014  
The use of SC here works really well and the greyness of the day doesn't dominate the scene, nicely done.
February 25th, 2014  
Perfect use of SC Babs, really should try it more often as it's so effective. I suppose the trick is selecting the right object which isn't always obvious to me!
February 25th, 2014  
Love the selective colouring. I really must learn how to do that!
February 25th, 2014  
@golftragic Only just getting round to replying to thank you for your comments. A bit of a busy week this week. Not much at home time. Better to be busy than idle though eh!!
February 25th, 2014  
@jackie8 Thanks Jackie, it was a very grey day, but it wasn't cold which is good.
February 25th, 2014  
@paulaw Thanks Paula. Know what you mean about picking the right thing to do selective colouring with. I don't always see it either, but this stood out because it was red. I decided to convert this shot to b&w because of the greyness of the day and then spotted the fire hose box while I was doing that.
February 25th, 2014  
@angelar Thanks Angela. There are lots of ways of doing selective colouring and this one was very easy because of the simplicity of the shape of the box.
If you have photoshop all I did with this was
Quick selection tool, highlight the area to stay coloured.
Select/Inverse
Image/Adjustments/Black and white
Select/Deselect
and there you have it.

February 25th, 2014  
@onewing My week's been, and still is, much the same so I know what you mean!
February 25th, 2014  
@onewing Bless you! That sounds very simple and I always thought it was quite complex. I'll give it a go!
February 26th, 2014  
@angelar Look forward to seeing the results.
February 26th, 2014  
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