Project 32 - Primary Colours

Ok, so I had a look though my collection of photos to see if my planned colour wheel with flowers would work.




This is the starting point. The red is ok, but I want to re-shoot yellow and blue. Yellow because there are too many variations of yellow in the photo (shadows, light etc) and blue as the bluebells are a bit violet in colour in my opinion. I do like the shallow depth of field in the blue photo though, as the out of focus background provides more of the same colour without detracting from the subject.

I do like the idea of using flowers to illustrate the colour wheel, and I think it works well. Now I need to concentrate on getting shots to illustrate the colours I am after. I need to get the exposure settings for the red photo, and also remember to record the exposures for the new photos I shoot, to compare the effect of different exposures on the colour.

Ultimately after I have got the shots I need for the primary and then secondary colours, I will put together a colour wheel comprising the 6 photos.

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Red

I've been looking through my photos and found this one which I may be able to use to illustrate "red"




It's one of a poppy that I shot two summers ago. I have more photos from the series, but this is one of the clearest for the colour, helped enormously by the back-lighting.
Anyway it's there to use for the project if I need to.

I have also been looking at the colour wheel and I have downloaded a couple of examples from the web to put on here for reference :




and...




which shows primary, secondary and tertiary colours. These projects are concerned with primary and secondary colours only.

I think my red poppy illustrates the red in the first colour wheel quite well.

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