Vignetting

[anniek]

OK guys - fess up - it's me you're talking about

Yes I did this to most of the Santa pics from our party! - I had limited time to turn around a lot of pics, so I took the quick way of editing out the garbage bins etc, and gave a them a snowy Xmassy look - they also went into those tacky Xmassy frames that have pattened and coloured edges, so I wanted something blank between the subjects snd the card border.

People really did like them believe it or not (I know you don't)......... :D

Annie

[Clicking Mad]

crikey, I use vignetting all the time, yesterday I thought if I can see it easily in the thumbnail or small version I should cut back or something, sometimes I've deliberately left an obvious vignette for whatever reason?

though, lets have a look at my last flickr posted pics shall we? I don't think I've learnt a thing

a white and black vignette on this one of Texas

yup, this one has a vignette too

another obvious one ... oh and some of that lovely, and fav of Ash's colour selection to give this real charm

okay, this is ridiculous, looks like I use it all the time

I knew there was a reason I read this thread

ah, 1 in 5 hasn't had a vignette applied

may be time to learn how to use lr better, or get photoshop or something

[persephone]

Hmm.. I use it a bit...

here's one from yesterday..

HERE,on flickr

[Ashanali]

crikey, I use vignetting all the time, yesterday I thought if I can see it easily in the thumbnail or small version I should cut back or something, sometimes I've deliberately left an obvious vignette for whatever reason?

another obvious one ... oh and some of that lovely, and fav of Ash's colour selection to give this real charm

Is it that obvious that I'm not a fan of bogan selective colour?

[Clicking Mad]

it was just one of those conversations I remember you having with rocco at one stage

That took me forever to do too!

Although, I have had a little "what I would call success" with selective colour ... I'm not much of a fan either, to be honest, was just going for the Christmas theme, and well, you know the grass is pretty horrible. Okay, enough justifying a bad decision

[Ashanali]

Photographers tend to not like it because it's a left over from the 90's and we've all done it to death.

BUT I understand that for many people it's like a new toy when they discover they can do it. As for clients who request it, we hate doing it but we also understand that while we are tired of it because we've done it so many times, the client has never had a photo of them with selective colour in it... so we do it, make them happy and the photo will never see the light of day except in the clients' home.

I have seen one extremely talented use of selective colour. Other than that, I'm still not a fan.

[Kirislin]

well I like your vignetting CM, I dont use it, but I like it.

[altheau]

The original is a brighter photo. To begin with I preferred the original, but I made it more extreme to show the difference and decided that maybe I like this better

I think a test print is in order

I am going to go out on a limb here and say

I think it works here because it makes a part of the photo that was originally a bit flat or dull, more alive. I am refering to the top corners of the photo. The dog has natural great contrasts between dark and real blacks, but the top of the photo, the greenery does not have the range. Adding in the darkness to the top has created some real blacks up there as well which I think makes it pop more.

just talking from my point of view, working with graphite (where all you have is a tonal range and texture) this is something that has really started to stand out for me, and i wonder if that is why I think this photo more with it, but others I think it looks like a waste becuase the photo already has such great contrasts and pop.

Just a thought from me any how (a newbie with no real idea about photography)

[helen]

Good point, there was contrast but only in the dog, not in the background