Yes, many consider it so. Tacky, awful, dated, so 90s, fadish, bad, wrong, horrible, cheap, distracting, unprofessional, and so on.
To wit:
Top Photography Sins and Mistakes to Avoid
Selective Color is the Comic Sans of Photography
Ten Deadly Post-Processing Sins (see #7)
So, for your nauseating “enjoyment”, here are three of my “tacky and dated” selective color images from last weekend…
A custom print shop in the downtown area of Denver:
A bloody red stake through the heart:
The former Denver University building’s very creative chimney, a 2014 Mayor’s Design Awards winner:
