I have a thing for photography that is desaturated. I’m particularly fond of it when I’m working on portraits, as in the way that the color in your eyes and the colors in your face are affected when you’re not looking at them.
I think desaturation is cool. I also take great photos when Im out of focus, so I think it’s cool that we now have the ability to use that technique.
I totally agree with this. I always wanted to feel like I had a real camera so I could shoot at different ISO settings, so when I get a photograph that is way too dark, I feel like I just lost a chance to get it right.
For those who have never played the game, desaturation is a technique through which you change the color of an image so that it is no longer as sharp. It’s a way of making a photo appear to have been taken at a different, more pleasant tone. It is a technique used for the kind of photography that is rarely seen these days.
The desaturation effect is not very subtle, which is why you can get away with using it in a lot of your photographs. People who have had a lot of experiences with the game may have noticed that the effects make some of the images look slightly more washed out. While I don’t think that there is anything wrong with desaturation itself, there is something wrong when you use it to make an image look “better.
I have used this technique in a few of my own photographs in my photography classes, but I think its a technique that should be used more often. You can see this effect in so many photographs in movies, from the dark interior of a car to the bright white background of a beach. It can add a nice sort of “artsy” feel to your photography.
The real problem with desaturation is that it comes in a variety of different colors. So, as with many things, there are people who like the color, and people who don’t. The vast majority of people, however, are going to see an image as neutral, but when they have to decide which color to use on a photograph, they tend to pick the one that is least distracting.
It really comes down to the color balance of the image. If the colors are right, almost everyone can see the whole image and no one can’t. But there are definitely exceptions to this rule. For example, if you’re photographing a person’s face in a dark room, you’re going to pick a color that makes them look either very dark or very light.
Photography is generally considered to be a white-balanced art, meaning you are neutralizing the colors by varying the brightness of the light, and you are not trying to achieve a balanced image with a single color. However, to achieve an image that is both neutral and interesting, it is recommended that you photograph your subjects in a way that produces a balanced image. And since we are talking about photography, I think its pretty easy to say that the right colors balance each other.
The best way to make sure this works is to know what you are looking for. Take a look at a scene and find out what colors are most important to you. For me, that would be red, green, and blue. This is the standard approach to photography. With other subjects, the color of the sky, for instance, is usually what you want. For people, I tend to focus on skin tones, especially a person’s hair.