Brief:
- Take or choose 1 image from your library which contains at least two strong contrasting colours.
- Convert to black and white and using editing software lighten one of the colours and darken the other.
- Then make another image and perform the task in reverse ie: darkening the first colour and lightening the second.
Original image: cabbage and red chilli
Screenshot of the black and white conversion
First things first, to convert the image to black and white - (I like the texture of the cabbage in black and white, I think it looks really good).
Black and white image with no other adjustments
screenshot of lightening the red chilli and darkening the green cabbage
Here after the adjustments have been made shows the chilli now a greyish/white colour and the green cabbage with extra umph as the texture is now very striking - although a little blown out in the far left - however, I did darken the greens quite considerably.
Screenshot of the reverse process darkened reds and lighter greens
Not so keen on this image of darkened reds and lighter greens - It shows blown out areas at the top of the image due to lightening the green areas, but again all in the nature of the exercise and this could probably have been prevented with less lightening.