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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Found it

I went out to the garage and, sure enough, in one of the filing cabinets was my OCA folder for TAoP. So I've had a flick through and found that I was working on project 31 building a library of photos for colour. The next few projects are to take photos for the primary colours and then the secondary colours.

I remember that the "Colours" section was the one I was looking forward to, so hopefully it will help that I am on that section as I am starting up again.

We took the dogs out to Sandringham today for a walk and I took my camera with me. Didn't take loads of photos, but a few, and toyed around with composition and exposure. Get me !!

Project 30 - Colour Control (manually operated cameras)

For this project I had to find an object of a strong definite colour and photograph it with the cameras automated exposure setting. Then I had to take the same photo over and under exposing it.

I initially wanted to photograph a bright red dress I have, but the folds of the material meant that there were always shadows and variations in colour on the photos. So instead I chose to photograph a blue chair back.

This is the image taken on my camera's auto exposure setting. 1/125 sec f6.3

This was taken at 1/125 sec f5.6.

1/125 sec f5

1/125 sec f7.1



1/125 sec f8

By over-exposing the blue becomes lighter, and by under-exposing it becomes darker and stronger.

I have 2 black Labradors and I have found I have a problem getting their true colour in a picture if I use the camera's auto-exposure.

 

This was taken using the camera's auto-exposure setting.  It was 1/15 sec at f7.1.  The dog was lying on a dark brown couch under a window and the whole image has been lightened by the camera's auto setting.

This one was taken on fully manual at 1/15 sec f9.  By under-exposing the image slightly, the dog's fur is a truer black, but is still lightened by the sunlight from the window, and it isn't so dark that detail is lost.

I think that this project is so very useful, and has reminded me to use the manual settings on the camera more than my usual Av mode.