Color Theory (Photography)
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Color Theory
and Light
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Vocabulary
White Balance, Golden hour, diffuser, even lighting, film noire, contrast, direct light, indirect light.
White Balance
Most lights, natural or manmade, carry a color tint
that influences your photographs.
Blue: Daylight (Just before Sunrise/Sunset,Winter, Shadows, Some Street
Lamps.Antoinette
Purkinje Effect:
● In the daytime, the rods and cones in your eye pick up more on the reds and other warm colors.
● As night time sets in, this reverses. Greens and Blues become dominant.
Draws attentionCompliments White, and
other light shaded color tones well.
In excess, irritating.
Yellow
The blue in it edges the color towardssadness.
The red in it can provide a "cooler" sense of warmth, passion, etc.
Purple
Yellow in it brings excitementRed in it brings warmth
The Golden Hour, our best time for natural lighting, brings pinks, oranges, are reds together. This makes everything you shoot feel very warm,
vibrant, and glowing.
Oranges and Reds can also cause fear and dread.
Orange
For further color consideration:
Taking color theory to a different level.