Colour in Photography. Porthleven in Cornwall with Selected toning

in Photo Blog Photography tips by Jamie HIBBERT — October 2, 2008 at 5:41 pm | 2 comments

Porthleven in Almost colour

Using colour in photography

The beauty with photography and other media art work, is you can change reality to suite mood and enhance emotions or aspects to portray your vision on the world….

It is your photograph, you might have set the cameras apature setting for depth of field or exposure and how you want to express that is up to you – know one else. It is nice when others praise your work, but also it is as nice when others argue and tell you what you did wrong, what was wrong for them. If you get an emotion from them you have effected them in some way, showing a message is getting across.

Colour in Photographs

This picture of Porthleven in West Cornwall has had most of the coloured area washed out, but detail is still there in huge amounts. The photograph was taken on a bright sunny day and color was oozing from the foreground, mid-ground and sky. But for the way I felt when I processed this image I did not want that typical postcard shot, I wanted to tweak and adjust it to suit my requirements.

The colour attracts the eye along the main subject of the shot, into the photograph. This same method can work very well  for portrait photography.

Young boy in Colour

Bringing out the subject against a desaturated back ground allows the subject to stand out from the back ground and almost pop out of the page.

The beauty with this kind of work is the scene is still set. The image has a purpose and tells a story, yet the eye first sees the main subject, then darts and finds other areas of interest in the photograph…. It becomes a study.

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