Selective color...has it run it's course?

Oh good Lord...I hope so.

The very first time I ever saw selective color being used was in the movie "Schindler's List" and obviously that was WAY before the Gatorade commercials. When did Schindler's List come out? Around 1994, I think?

In "Schindler's List," the entire movie was in black and white, except for scenes with a little girl with a rose. The rose was in color. It had a symbolic meaning to it and it worked.

But now, it has become just a cheap gimmick to try to get the viewer's attention. It's completely overdone and cliche. It ruins black and white pictures. Instead of just letting the picture and subject speak for itself, they use color as a cheap, lazy way to try to grab the viewer's attention. It's like a neon light on a bar. And the emo kids on MySpace love it because they can try to make their blurry, pixelated cell phone snapshots look more interesting than they actually are.

I'm also hoping the whole emo thing (people wearing black, guys wearing tight girl's pants and taking pictures of themselves for MySpace) will finally die out too...but it's already lasting longer than most fads. Even the baggy pants thing in the 90's didn't last this long.

Selina...I started going on the internet when I was only 16. But I never would have been interested in taking a bunch of pictures of myself and posting them online, and making them black and white with selective color. So age has nothing to do with it. A lame fad is a lame fad, regardless.

Over done selective color - not too appealing.

I do still like the look of selective color when it is subtle, such as in a sepia tone print with pastel colors similar to a hand colored look. Never did like the overly bright, primary color look on a B&W.

I have decided to be kind and understanding about this.

To every kid/teenager who first notices this effect, it is new and exciting.

It is a very easy editing technique, so they get to do something with great success and I need to understand that to every one of those kids, it is like they just invented the wheel.

They will play with it for a while, get tired of it, and start striving for new challenges.

Us oldies just have to wait it out - they all WILL get over it in time.

It's been way overdone. I think it still can be used effectively in some photos. Judging by the questions here, it's still popular with all the teens for their myspace photos. That alone should put the final nail in it's coffin.

Hey beehive hairdos are cool. But gods, I hope the selective color fad(aka color splash, focal color, that black and white thing with just one bit in color) is done. Over. Dead. Coz it sure is stinking.

Don't worry It'll be back in fashion in another 5 years time... as with everything

YES YES YES!!!!!

It caught on so quickly and ran like wildfire because it a notoriously easy effect. It has been done to death....almost as much as bad HDR's.

Is Disco Dead?

Way groovy!

I hope so.. It's very cliche but people are still constantly asking how to do it.