Cold sunshine

[Ben]

Thought I would have a play with the colour temperatures on some RAW shots I took the other day:

http://www.ben2.co.uk/spgm/gal/20D/Flowers/IMG_4669-01.jpg

http://www.ben2.co.uk/spgm/gal/20D/Flowers/IMG_4678-01.jpg

Both taken with nifty 50mm 1.8 :) I am not really happy with the composition of these as I wasn't really trying and the wind was blowing the flowers around quite a bit. I'll have to go back and get properly composed versions now I know I like the effect. What do you think?

[VesselinG]

I don't see the photo..

[Ben]

Working now - forgot to allow this website in my hotlinking access list :D

[ashmist]

Thats a great Idea, gives quite a surreal feeling

[Mills]

Nice. Really like number 1.

[PhotosGuy]

Great idea!

[IanBMW]

Wild. Could you go into a little bit more detail. Did you do selective temp adj.? Just looks so crazy.

[pjd83]

I really like these photos.

Slightly off topic. I'm doing something not with Colour Temperature but with Flash Colour at the moment. I've got some filters (some I made myself) that fit over my flash head to colour the light. I've got some wierd looking photos that I'll need to pop on here.

Sorry,

Back on topic...

[Ben]

Thanks for the all the great comments.

I shot the photos in Auto White Balance and then in RawShooter Essentials I just moved the temperature all the way down to cold. Then made a couple of slight adjustments to saturation, brightness etc.. and it was done :)

[cmM]

they're both real nice. I like #2 for some reason. it's magical!

[tumbleweed]

I love the second one from an artistic point of view. (I can't comment on the technical aspects cause I'm too much of a beginner!) The colors are awesome and the blurred background flowers make the one in focus seem mysterious somehow. I love the way the one in focus is lit.