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This photographer inspired me completely with his outstanding technique by using selective colour in his photographs. Nico is a professional London photographer specialised mostly in creating exciting visual content for global brands. In 2014 he was listed in the global Top 100 Most Socially Influential Photographers, in 2015 he was announced in the 20 Most Influential Street Photographers and in 2016, the Top 20 UK Photographers on the Web. I chose him because of his rare technique which is not used as much today but in the mid 2000 which where my actual photoshoot was themed at when I used selective colouring. 

Selective colour photography is a fairly humble procedure of photo manipulation in which you renovate a photo in black and white leaving an “accent” or partial colour on a photograph or a selected area. It’s sometimes frowned upon by photographers as it can often be executed with poor taste but like with all types of photography, I believe this technique can be used with great results. Highly underused by photographers which yet perfectly possible to create striking urban, fashion or street photographs when used with creativity, vision and good taste.

In my photoshoot I got motivated to reduce bolder colours such as the background and focus on more vibrant colours that could stand out such as red or yellow. 

Here is how I managed to perform colour spotting and use selective colour in photoshop. I opened my raw image, set my foreground and background colours to default, added a gradient map adjustment layer, selected the brush tool, set my foreground colour to black, lowered the hardness on the brush, resized and checked my brush options, restored the colours and started to fade the monochrome with the colour I wanted to leave out. Here is one example that U inserted in this project as a response to Nicholas. 

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