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05/19/2003 12:23:31 AM · #1 |
| Does anyone know how to get the perfect Blue, Red, and Yellow in the butterfly and peppers shots!!? The blue pepper seems so perfectly natural looking. And the butterflies, how could you get 3 perfectly colored butterflies in one shot! This is driving me crazy, any thoughts? |
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05/19/2003 12:25:25 AM · #2 |
Could they have been staged......
Message edited by author 2003-05-19 00:25:38. |
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05/19/2003 12:34:09 AM · #3 |
Well, I happen to know the answer to the butterfly question. You go to the dollar store and buy paper butterflys in primary colors, then you put them on some cool plants and take a picture. If you're dsidwell you'll get a ribbon with this shot (I told him it wouldn't do well cause it looked "fake"), if you're me you're lucky to get a 5. : )
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05/19/2003 12:43:45 AM · #4 |
For the peppers, you buy three peppers, one green, one red, and one blue. Actually, I imagine the blue pepper was once yellow, and he shifted the hue of yellow in Photoshop to blue?
And Marianne was right about the butterflies. They cost about a dollar each at the craft store. Wouldn't it be cool if monarch butterflies were really in those colors? |
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05/19/2003 12:51:49 AM · #5 |
Hmm, sage, I should have tried that! :) Well the butterflies are still well done, even tho I'm a little disappointed that they are "staged". Well it's the impression that matters I guess.
But what about the blue pepper? Can you buy a perfectly blue pepper also? Doesn't look painted to me. Amazing stuff. |
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05/19/2003 12:57:02 AM · #6 |
It appears to me that the blue pepper is really green. The photographer did a hue shift on the green in Photoshop to make it appear blue. The evidence of this is the blue at the base of the stem of the yellow pepper. Typically this area would be green.
-Terry
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05/19/2003 01:06:45 AM · #7 |
| By jove your right, Clubjuggle! Chris's question is still valid, however. Whenever I've done huge color shifts like this, the shifted color usually looks grainy. Or am I just doing it wrong? |
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05/19/2003 04:38:24 AM · #8 |
| dsidwell, even though your pic does look fake, it definitely has the wow factor due to the brilliant colours, and its composition and hence I gave it a good score and presumably a lot of other people and hence its merited ribbon. |
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05/19/2003 09:17:54 AM · #9 |
You can see some of the shifted colour in the other peppers stems too.
Although at the weekend I did notice vivid purple peppers (say that 3 times, fast) for sale. |
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05/19/2003 11:04:54 AM · #10 |
| Maybe they soaked it in blue dye? |
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05/19/2003 11:48:34 AM · #11 |
| I'm pretty sure all three peppers are wax: look at the way the light diffuses through the top of the yellow one. |
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05/19/2003 11:50:30 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by eloise:
I'm pretty sure all three peppers are wax: look at the way the light diffuses through the top of the yellow one. |
I think that's because a green pepper has been converted to a blue one.
The green bits at the top of the stem on the yellow pepper were then also colour shifted giving the weird effect there. |
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