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?
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. : )
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
