I've been staying pretty much "old school" with my photography in the last year. That is, I've been doing as little editing as possible ... striving to get most of the real work done in camera instead of in photoshop.
Still, lately I've noticed a trend toward "color splash" technology...switching an image to black-and-white then returning splashes of color to certain areas of the photo. The results are so beautiful and so desirable that I finally gave in and downloaded new software yesterday.
Wow!
It's FUN and ADDICTIVE!
There's something to be said for "old school" photography but there's also A LOT to be said for all the wonderful technologies available in today's digital world!
Back in my actual "old school" days, I did this manually using a black-and-white print (usually self-printed in the darkroom), lots of little bottles of color & color remover, q-tips and cotton balls. There were also little oil color pencils you could use, but they didn't offer the same results as the bottled color. The process was tedious and time-consuming and then you still had to wait days for the color to dry. This digital color painting is so quick and simple it's almost magical, by comparison!
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