Phil Borges

[alfredo]

http://www.philborges.com

[Blue_In_AK]

1. These are great!

[alfredo]

2. The tones are wonderful. I'm blown away.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. It's really interesting how he did that.

They're really lovely shots. I'm in awe.

[alfredo]

4. The simple backgrounds and desaturated colors adds so much.

[alfredo]

5. This guy is pretty good. David Lazar

[Blue_In_AK]

6. Wow, the eyes!

Beautiful.

[alfredo]

7. Those green eyes on the boy, and symmetry of the girl's face really stand out.

Both real beauties.

[PatSeg]

8. Extraordinary

[alfredo]

9. It makes me want to try new things with my portraits.

[PatSeg]

10. Actually

I was thinking the same thing. What he captured here is beyond definition. Just wonderful.

[Stevenmarc]

11. They're incredible photos

But I truly dislike selective color, it's the mullet of post processing, color in the front and B&W in the back. These images are so strong on their own it just confounds me why there's the need to use a gimmick to push the subject visually forward.

[alfredo]

12. I think it was more a case of desaturating the image. I tried it on

some color portraits and the skin tones persisted to the point where I have some of an idea of what he did. Brightly colored backgrounds were problematic. I will have to go back and look at his other images because I don't remember if he did use selective color.

[Stevenmarc]

13. There's a bit more

Going on than the selective color. This isn't a case where he fully desaturated the photo except for the skin which at a quick glance looks partially desaturated, his process is both subtractive and additive at the same time. He's desaturated the entire image and then used a colorization technique to fill in only the skin and hair. It's certainly a more complex application of selective color but selective color still the same.

Here's the thing, you know the saying, like putting lipstick on a pig, well it wouldn't bother me if the images weren't as good as they are, this is more like putting lipstick on a unicorn you just don't mess with something that's already magical.

[alfredo]

14. The light touch is what works. One might not even

be aware of the color.