Urban chic| My friends thought I travelled abroad for these photos.

I talk about colorgrading a lot. I could sit and talk about it for hours and not get bored. It's a very interesting phenomenon for me, and I'm glad that I do it as much as I talk it.

With colorgrading, I'm able to define my style, create a signature look; and it's a amazing thing for me. For people to see my work and notice almost immediately that it's my work.

I've been doing a lot of practicing since the beginning of this year. Creating new colorgrading styles and patterns, suitable for the kind of photos I'd love to create this year.

I had the opportunity to test one of the colors I created, on some photos I created in January this year. The reactions I got from my followers were interesting.

For those photos, I used a color pattern that made the photograph look like it wasn't shot in Nigeria. Sounds funny yea? Yes, it does. But their comments had some sort of legit validation.

For most of us colorgraders, when we shoot outside, there's a pinch of similarity in the way we tweak our greens. When you see the photos, you'll be like "yea, this definitely is Nigeria".

I switched up this time though. I completely messed up the greens and the colors legit looked like outside Nigeria. Maybe a country where it snows.

Check out the photos;

I was inspired to colorgrade the photos that way not because I already had the preset, but because the constituents of the scene allowed it. The model was dressed in a thick fur jacket. Something you don't normally wear in Nigeria because it's almost a 100degrees here.

So basically, the colors I chose for those photos fitted perfectly. And that's a lesson about colorgrading I share about a lot.
I tell people that most times, the elements in a photograph should determine how you colorgrade it.. And that's why using presets as standard tool for editing may fail.

Let me know in the comments section what you think about the photos. Personally, I feel I should have added some snow 😁.