With everything that’s been going on with organizing details for the 2010 Calendar and traveling to DC for Daniel’s BibleBee competition, I was unable to get this up on time. However, it is better late than never!

Urban Contrast

I do not normally use this effect on my photos, but the circumstances uniquely called for it on this occasion. It was a dull, rainy day and I was in the city where an over-abundance of color can because distracting very quickly. It was the color similarity between the well-kept VW and the sign of the hotel behind it that first caught my eye. Then, when the fellow who happened to be wearing a red jacket walked by, the picture was pulled out from the depths of creative to extraordinary.

The post-processing selective-color technique is very simple. In Lightroom, I de-saturated all the colors except for red, which I slightly saturated. I then heightened the contrast which is what makes black and white images really pop.

In looking at this picture, I can’t help but ask: how much we pop out from the world? Are we washed in the blood of the Lamb to the degree that people notice our Christlike living?