Have you ever tried a color splash?
Smartphone-photography offers great tools to edit your pictures immediately. Those who may have followed me a little bit know that I take my pictures with a Huawei P30 Pro. Those who haven't seen anything from me yet, I'm taking all my pictures with a Huawei P30 Pro.
Sometimes we have days where we feel just as lonely as this poppy crossing my way. Our mood changes like colors in a photo edit. Each one is different and the same picture can shine in a different light.
The color splash technique can give any picture a special touch. You can highlight certain things, you can enhance a background and set a statement by choosing a specific color to be put in the spotlight, while all the other colors are blacked out.
The message of a picture can change according to the motive and the color you choose to splash.
Just like a mood changes, the same pictures looks different when you splash different colors. It changes its mood.
When you own a smartphone you have different features to edit your picture within the phone. Not all have the same features, that is why the Huawei P30 Pro stands out a little bit.
When you go to your Gallery opening a picture you can edit it. You can choose the More mode and it gives you the option to pick Splash. Choose it and your picture becomes black with the hint to Tap a Color meaning you can choose any spot in your picture and this color will be "splashed".
Above I did that with the sky. The blue colors are all that will stand out now and it gives the scene a focus on the sky. Isn't this blue refreshing? It gives the picture a total different appearance without taking away from the poppy. It feels kinda surreal, artistic, yet the picture keeps a message.
Below I choose the classic, highlighting the red color. You might have seen the movie Schindler's List. There is a famous scene with a girl in a red coat. Due to license issues I'm referring to the www to take a look at this picture. It is a color splash technique to point out a very important message.
That is why this technique can be powerful for a picture.
A total different feeling you get when splashing the green of the meadow. Compared to the blue splash it looks mystical now. The poppy is still holding somewhat of the attention but the low angle in connection with the green splashing makes this picture philosophical.
It demands that you think about it, it leads you away into your own thoughts.
So while I took a walk with my dog and wandered around the field where everything was green, blue skies with thick cotton candy clouds, rapeseed shining in a bright yellow the little, lonely red poppy stood out.
Like a human that doesn't seem to fit society she withstood the wind that was blowing at her. Alone among rapeseed, green grass and blue skies she was unique.
We can learn from her that being unique, withstanding winds and loneliness is part of all of us, it all depends where we are. Being unique and different from the masses is nothing bad, but enriching.
The poppy was unique in her surrounding and in her uniqueness she became the highlight of the scene.
Have you heard of the color splash technique or maybe even used it? Feel free to drop an example in the comments section.
