Unconventional Colours is a look into how unconventional colours are used and applied in photography, through examples and explanations.


LIST OF WORKS
1. "The Butterfly House"
Copyright Lachlan McDonald, 2005

2. Portrait of Aristidi Karakoulakis
Copyright Lachlan McDonald, 2007
Used with permission.

3. "The Mall 2"
Copyright Lachlan McDonald, 2005

4. Portrait of Lee Thompson
Copyright Lachlan McDonald, 2007
Used with permission.

5. Portrait of Marco Santos
Copyright Lachlan McDonald, 2006
Used with permission.

6. Snapshot of Lachlan McDonald
Copyright Lachlan McDonald & Michael Gabrielsen, 2007
Photographer Michael Gabrielsen
Used with permission

7. Portrait of Lachlan McDonald
Copyright Lachlan McDonald, Phil Detoya, 2008
Photographer Phil Detoya
Used with permission

8. Portrait of Phil Detoya
Copyright Lachlan McDonald, 2008
Used with permission

9. Portrait of Elle Guildner
Copyright Elle Guildner, 2008
Adapted from origion with permission

10. "Beauty Before The Storm"
Copyright Lachlan McDonald, 2006

11. "Generic Scape, A"
Copyright Lachlan McDonald, 2007

11. "Three Trees"
Copyright Lachlan McDonald, 2007


NOTES
Photoshop Adjustment Layers are a fantastic way to apply changes to an image without making permanent changes. You can find Adjustment Layers in the Layers menu.

Duo-tone printing involves a printer which uses two inks to create up to three colour combinations (the paper colour being the third). In practise, Gradient Maps are not really duo-tonal, as you can specify more than 2 colours. To truly go the duo, tri or quad-tone route, you can press Image > Mode > Grayscale, then Image > Mode > Duotone.

The portrait of Elle Guildner (photo 9) was a replacement supplied by Elle in the last minute when she noticed a copyright issue with the previous photo. Ellie supplied the new photo, her self-portrait, to add some diversity to the photos.

Though not appearing, Michael Gabrielsen not only shot photo 6, but was present during the shootings of photos 11 and 12, and proof read the first revision, making it the third time he's proofed my writing (Critique is Dead & Guide to Being A Jackass being the first two).

The "chemical" look was first put forth by Layers Magazine in their article "Curvy Cross Processing in Photoshop CS3".