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I should share a photo I did when I was in high school, learning on a digital point and shoot. I was guilty of the selective coloring in this one. It was my little brother coloring with chalk on our front porch and he just looked so content. In the hayday of myspace, of COURSE everything had to be black and white except his chalk art! I was pretty proud of it at the time and it’s at least not my worst moment, but oh yes… I’ve done it too! Lol.

For high end photography, I think it cheapens it so severely! I saw a photo on Pinterest a while back that was a bunch of black umbrellas and the bride and groom lifting away a colored one. There is a version of it that I loved. It wasn’t selective color, they just removed the colored element by having everyone else covered completely by the top of their umbrella against a concrete floor. You could tell it was a natural pop. Every copy cat of the image I’ve seen has been selective color and it just looks… wrong.
Why do people want that for portraits? Is it still that popular?