Mustang at a Wedding

Bride and Groom kissing after the wedding with a classic red ford mustang car IMG_6044-2-Edit

I was looking through some recent (ish) wedding shots we had done and found this one. The Bride and Groom were after a few colour isolation (spot colouring) shots where one colour stands out while the rest is black and white. This technique has been around for a while (it was big in the movie Sin City) and I use it occasionally if the shot is appropriate. This classic Ford Mustang was screaming to be spot coloured, the bridesmaids were also in red so we used the same technique on some of their shots too.
It is easy enough to do in Lightroom, on the HSL panel you just drop all the saturations to -100 then bring the reds (and some of the yellow) back up to 0 (or over). The problem with doing this on red is it leaves some colour on the skin giving ‘not long dead’ look, not great for wedding photography. This is easily solved with the local adjustment brush, set the saturation to -100 and paint over where you want it to get desaturated ie the skin.
I played around with the image a little more to give a more 3D cartoony type look which I find works well with spot colouring. I also personalised the number plate for the couple, just little details I think every wedding photographer should look to add if possible.