Author Topic: Black & white & red (Read 774 times)

AmstelBright · « **on:** October 23, 2011, 12:25:45 PM »

This is a former offshore radio station that has been moved to Amsterdam and transformed into a restaurant. I took this photo with a Canon FD 50mm f/1.8 legacy lens and processed the picture in Lightroom. The selective colouring effect was obtained by filtering out all colour except red and some orange to highlight the checkered red/white paint pattern (and one person in the restaurant):

Checkered by AmstelBright, on Flickr

RT_Panther · « **Reply #1 on:** October 23, 2011, 12:38:15 PM »

Looks like the old 1950s/1960s Lego blocks....

E-M5 Pete · « **Reply #2 on:** October 23, 2011, 03:32:42 PM »

Or a House boat on stilts

So Retro... Love it !!

lisandra · « **Reply #3 on:** October 28, 2011, 01:36:15 AM »

Beautifully done, I love selective color

vdub_er · « **Reply #4 on:** October 28, 2011, 04:21:26 AM »

A great subject for the selective colour treatment.

panzerfaustnl · « **Reply #5 on:** November 23, 2011, 03:37:21 PM »

Cool, but I am also curious if you had just colored one part red.

cosinaphile · « **Reply #6 on:** November 23, 2011, 04:14:16 PM »

this structure or others like them is where the expression "pirate radio" come from ....true story

panzerfaustnl · « **Reply #7 on:** November 25, 2011, 04:05:48 AM »

I thought that the reason was that Veronica (a radio and tv station in Europe) used a ship to send from.

cosinaphile · « **Reply #8 on:** November 25, 2011, 09:06:19 AM »

i believe you are right the earliest pirate radios were ship sent , and this is an evolved form

AmstelBright · « **Reply #9 on:** November 25, 2011, 10:32:23 PM »

Quote from: cosinaphile on November 25, 2011, 09:06:19 AM

i believe you are right the earliest pirate radios were ship sent , and this is an evolved form

I found out that this "island" was in fact a TV broadcast station, not a radio station. It was founded in 1964 at a time when commercial television was still forbidden in The Netherlands. By going offshore the TV station was able to circumvent this legislation, but a new law was quickly drafted to eliminate this loophole (it took until the 1980s before commercial television was finally legalized here). The island was later used by the government as an offshore sea-observation platform. It's now been moved to Amsterdam where it has been converted into a restaurant with an observation deck.

Quote from: panzerfaustnl on November 23, 2011, 03:37:21 PM

Cool, but I am also curious if you had just colored one part red.

I didn't actually colour-in anything; I just filtered out all colours except red and about 50% of the orange. As far as I remember I increased the red saturation by about 5% and tweaked the red/orange luminance a bit, but nothing drastic. This was done in Lightroom using global filters that applied to the whole picture - no Photoshop-style masking was required here to obtain this effect.

asterinex · « **Reply #10 on:** November 26, 2011, 11:55:42 AM »

Also in Belgium we listened to Veronica! The pirate radio

the ship is now stationed in Antwerpen.

niftypitchers · « **Reply #11 on:** April 01, 2012, 10:36:43 AM »

This is an interesting use of the effect. Have you considered darkening the red to more of a blood tone? It might be subtler and less startling.

rparmar · « **Reply #12 on:** April 06, 2012, 04:30:36 AM »

Generally I very much dislike selective colouring and the way it encourages the viewer to be lazy. But to everything there is an exception, and your photo is one! Amazing structure.

cotneye · « **Reply #13 on:** April 06, 2012, 12:15:11 PM »

Love the artistic use of post processing with Lightroom and with a fascinating background story to go along with a great photo.

Black & white & red