How does one make a picture look like this?
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M$There are ways however to isolate colors and grayscale everything else out. In other words, you can have color elements in a black and white image:
http://www.graphic-design.com/Photoshop/Seminars/colorize/index.html
You can also change the color of objects using Photoshop elements:
http://digital-photography-school.com/changing-color-in-photoshop
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No, those windows are just bright. The exposure level is high for that area of the photograph. But, if you turn the exposure down to compensate for the window's brightness, you will dim the rest of the photograph.
Those windows look to me like they have a disfusse glow on them. A filter with photoshop. I could be wrong though, you might try it.
That second tutorial's interesting. I'll have to play around with that... But to address your first paragraph, I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the fact that everything's just white. But even in some pictures were there's less white, it's still... white-ish. I dunno how to describe it. Maybe I'm just crazy. Maybe "white" isn't the word. Bright?
"I've been noticing a "white" trend lately"
"Is there a way to replicate the effect in Photoshop (or another editing program)?"
if you are talking about the window walls and couch, that is the color of them. However, you can bring out the white by either using a filter on the lens or by increasing the contrast with Photoshop.
I'm unfamiliar with a light meter. Is that a camera feature, or a separate piece? Is there a way to replicate the effect in Photoshop (or another editing program)?
Well all cameras have a small light meter in them to measure how light or dark the environment is. With this information the camera can then adjust how much light the camera should let in by adjusting how wide the aperture (the lens) is and how fast the shutter speed is.
Shutter speed definition: "The time that the shutter remains open when taking a photograph." Examples: 1/60 of a sec, 1/200, 1/500, etc etc
So how does the light meter in the camera work? It measures all the light in the picture and averages it out. This works well most of the time, but in your picture the sunlight coming through the windows is a lot brighter than the light in the room. If the camera were to average these out, the room would be too dark (in order to compensate for the super bright window light).
The photographer used a light meter (examples: http://bit.ly/bMrYsR ) to measure the light in the room, and then he/she took a picture at the proper level. The result is the window light is "blown out"
"When a photograph is overexposed it simply means that the photo is too bright. Typically colors will look washed out and highlights will often be "blown out" or completely white."
So that is why the window light is all white. The photographer may have also used a filter and/or an effect in Photoshop to make it completely white and give it that soft glow around the edges.
I hope this helped explain, feel free to ask anymore follow up questions :)
I'm not sure that explains why the picture was all white. The picture would have been all white regardless of the exposure level. That's just basic photography.