Have you ever tried a color splash?
Smartphone-photography offers great tools to edit your pictures immediately. Those who may have followed me a little bit know that I take my pictures with a Huawei P30 Pro. Those who haven't seen anything from me yet, I'm taking all my pictures with a Huawei P30 Pro.
Sometimes we have days where we feel just as lonely as this poppy crossing my way. Our mood changes like colors in a photo edit. Each one is different and the same picture can shine in a different light.
The color splash technique can give any picture a special touch. You can highlight certain things, you can enhance a background and set a statement by choosing a specific color to be put in the spotlight, while all the other colors are blacked out.
The message of a picture can change according to the motive and the color you choose to splash.
Just like a mood changes, the same pictures looks different when you splash different colors. It changes its mood.
When you own a smartphone you have different features to edit your picture within the phone. Not all have the same features, that is why the Huawei P30 Pro stands out a little bit.
When you go to your Gallery opening a picture you can edit it. You can choose the More mode and it gives you the option to pick Splash. Choose it and your picture becomes black with the hint to Tap a Color meaning you can choose any spot in your picture and this color will be "splashed".
Above I did that with the sky. The blue colors are all that will stand out now and it gives the scene a focus on the sky. Isn't this blue refreshing? It gives the picture a total different appearance without taking away from the poppy. It feels kinda surreal, artistic, yet the picture keeps a message.
Below I choose the classic, highlighting the red color. You might have seen the movie Schindler's List. There is a famous scene with a girl in a red coat. Due to license issues I'm referring to the www to take a look at this picture. It is a color splash technique to point out a very important message.
That is why this technique can be powerful for a picture.
A total different feeling you get when splashing the green of the meadow. Compared to the blue splash it looks mystical now. The poppy is still holding somewhat of the attention but the low angle in connection with the green splashing makes this picture philosophical.
It demands that you think about it, it leads you away into your own thoughts.
So while I took a walk with my dog and wandered around the field where everything was green, blue skies with thick cotton candy clouds, rapeseed shining in a bright yellow the little, lonely red poppy stood out.
Like a human that doesn't seem to fit society she withstood the wind that was blowing at her. Alone among rapeseed, green grass and blue skies she was unique.
We can learn from her that being unique, withstanding winds and loneliness is part of all of us, it all depends where we are. Being unique and different from the masses is nothing bad, but enriching.
The poppy was unique in her surrounding and in her uniqueness she became the highlight of the scene.
Have you heard of the color splash technique or maybe even used it? Feel free to drop an example in the comments section.
See you next time fellow Photography Lovers!
I saw red so I stopped. Was that intentional?
🤔 good question. A poppy is red so I might ask the poppy about her intentions because I saw red as well, that's why I stopped. The result of my stop made you stop here and after all I hope you enjoyed it 😊
These poppies sure know how to pop. Usually once you pop, you can't stop. But that's Pringles.
So I guess, I dunno. What do we do? Wait for it to turn green?
🤔 another good question, what do we do? If we wait for it to become green it will be a green among greens. And perhaps even as a green among greens the poppy can stand out with a different kind of green.
In the end we are all poppies and we are all greens, so when taking a look at the poppy popping we take a look at ourselves.
I think I see myself standing here for awhile. Should have brought snacks along.
Pringles sound like a legit snack ;)
I heard they got off to a rocky start.
You know red is the first color recognized by the brain? I'm sure you're already aware. But did you know the second color recognized by the brain is yellow?
Explains why all the fast food signs are red and yellow but doesn't explain why I like the black and green poppy the best. Must have something to do with my eyes. Either that or this phone, I don't have the same phone as you. Did you know less than 2% of the worlds population has green eyes?
I'm less than a 2%'er.
Congratulations you green eyed devil saying devil cause even the devil is having a good side .I'm amongst the 10%ers...a blue eyed devil so to say.
But with my blue eyes I like the green poppy as well, it has the most depth. The red one has the strongest message and the blue is the one that looks the most out of space. All combined become what we call reality.
I try not to hide my good side you know, it's how I like to present myself, thanks for noticing. Speaking of reality:
Could you imagine the potential in all these fast food joints if they merely had a filtration system?!
I wonder if Burger King has any burgers? 🤔
I wonder if they accept Visa.
Somewhere in Michigan yes I took the picture, I saw it with my own eyes...memoriiiiiies
Cutty Sark?! That's the funniest name ever for a restaurant. I wonder if everything on the menu tastes like hell and cost two bucks? Even my autocorrect wanted to spLeL curry.
Most entertainment I got out of a Visa logo in a long time.
Beautiful
Truly beautiful, I can see that you like it very much. You also express mixed feelings in each picture which makes it even more beautiful to the eye of the receiver.
Glad you liked them, thanks for leaving this comment on it :)
Excelente post, muy tradicional, gracia por compartir, saludos.
Gracias ;)
Then... do you mean... we might be both a pair of multicolored splashed poppies around this digital place?
There are many poppies around this digital place 😁
Yeah, but maybe they are not so colorful as to need to be color splashed.
What a pretty picture in the tutorial, beautiful woman. Anyways, we all go through different colors, not all carry the same at the same time so being in resonance to every color, even within Hive is a personal task for everyone and makes us work on ourselves how we respond to them. We pick our own battles so to say. :)
Oh, I see. Perhaps I am a bit reddish-green or yellowish-blue sometimes.
But thinking about it twice, probably I'm rather more like a little lilac among light green people in motion. Especially if they focus on the black cross in the center. :)
Even when you focus on the corners the green appears. ;)
Yeah! he is too flat, waxed, silky & soft. But basically colorless!! };)
woowwww is pretty