Colour Splash

First I need to what a colour splash actually is, so I went to google and sampled some of the photos I thought represented what a colour splash is while also looking aesthetically pleasing, I got a small sample of nine photos I found on google from not particular author.

A colour splash is where an image is turned black & white expect from the focal point of the image which is normally colourful. Now I'm going to have to take some of my own photos and organise them in a contact sheet.

Contact Sheet

Now that I've got my contact sheet, its just a matter of picking the best one for a colour splash.

Then I simply changed it to black and white and tweaked the levels to look nice

with the original on the bottom layer and the black and white version on top i began to use a mixture of  the quick select tool to get rid of the bulk of it and a soft rubber to smooth the edges

and finally i cropped the image down so that the roof and the brick lining frames the trees leaves.

Over all Im quite proud of the final piece because I like the nice autumn leaves, how the tree branch creates a leading line and how the roof and brick wall make a nice frame. if I were to redo this i maybe would have gotten another photo put from a wider angle because the leaves are quite a big part of the image and makes the focal point bigger than Id really like it.