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Color Key Week – Finest Scents of Singapore
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I’m gonna do some techtalk on this one so this blog entry could be interesting for you.
First of all I need to apologize because this image isn’t really a color key image but well I think it fit’s quite well in the series because of the three significant colors used here. Red Yellow and Blue. It’s quite near to the RGB spectrum and maybe that’s why at least in my eyes the colors fuse perfectly.
Of what are you reminded when you see the image. Close your eyes and think about it for a while. For me it reminds me of the Novel “Das Parfum” by Patrick Süßkind. I’m not so sure if it is translated into English. In the Novel there is the main character- Grenouille. An absolutely strange guy. Dirty, no one likes him and he doesn’t like anyone, too. The only passion this guy has is to experiment with scents. In the story he develops the perfect perfume that charms everyone.
For me this picture on the one hand symbolizes purity and the lovely scent of perfume but on the other hand dirt that is covert by the beauty. Somehow a catching tension is achieved by the image.
So how have I done this?
First I went into this beautiful store at Arab Street Singapore. It’s a shop for parfume only and it’s very minimalistic. In a city like Singapore minimalistic is luxury and it is expensive because space is rare. Then I looked at the picture you can see underneath and thought man this in not how I imagined it when I was thinking of the store.
The picture is hazy and gray. Something must happen.
I decided to use a gradient filter starting with blue on the top and ending with yellow at the bottom. The best way is to see it at the left bottles and the wooden front. I allingned the effect, that the absconding lines are colored perfectly. Then I used a high pass filter to work out the popping wood structures. As the light comes from the bottom and illuminates the bottles in a nice way I choose to intensify this effect by adding the Orton glow effect to the image and multiplied it negatively with the layer in Photoshop. One has to be good in masking to do so because the Glow effect would destroy the structure in the wood and the writings on the bottle if you don’t take care. In the end I used a noise cancelling filter to get rid of noise coming from the highpass filter. I quickly added some contrast to boost the light from the bottom. That’s it.
Tell me how you like the result if you read this article. If you try to do a picture like this on your own let me see the result. I know everyone of you has really good skills so I can learn from you, too.
You can find the shop here: sifr.sg/
If you want to particitpate in the Color Key Week tell me about your color key photos uploaded this week. I will comment and look at them!
Ben
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