How to use color in photography

Color photography has been neglected

If we say color photography has long been neglected, you will think that it is overweight, custom canvas online but a lot of photography in the digital age grew up, picked up the moment, the digital camera is to shoot color photos, it is also a colorful world, they see how everything comes naturally. But, saw, photographed, but not necessarily take good, experienced landscape photographer clearly see picturesque scenery, it is not optional for machine, because they think that colour is not perfect, even if is the blue sky white clouds, they may also feel saturation, contrast is not obvious enough, for starters, is too easy to satisfy to press the shutter.

In the middle of the differences is the understanding of color, if you don't know what is the color contrast, what is the feeling of color, how to highlight the color that is often seen to take what you, then don't know to choose a more appropriate time and opportunity, look for a better Angle shot better color photographs.

Digital photography is black and white

Digital photography was black and white? It is true, CMOS or CCD actually cannot distinguish between colors, they can only read the light intensity data, so clever scientist in CMSO and CCD is mounted on the RGB filters, let each pixel read only the strength of the R, G, B a light, and then mixed in image processing chip out protean colour.

Colour because of the light

Color actually is a very abstract thing, it can be said to be a kind of human visual perception, cannot touch, also there is no fixed pattern, in physics, it is in the spectral bands, no light, no color, when we see the color, must be attached in a shape under the light, because have inseparable relations with the light colour, in the case of the all black we can't see anything, also can't see any color. But does this mean that only because no light, we can't see the "color" in the dark, and the color itself is still there in the dark? The answer is no, because there is no light, there is no color, the color, which exists for light of different colors, formed by different wavelengths, so there is no light there would be no color.

How to use color?

Because of the color changing and no phase, so the color discrimination was kung fu, but basically sighted people can easily distinguish the spectrum in a controlled environment in the main tone, as well as black, white and grey and its bright and saturation changes.

Colour of the conflict and harmony

While early photographer or scientists trying to figure out ways to study film color photo, actually designed to record and replay the colour of the real world, however, as the color photography technology mature, on the role of color in the art of photography not only reproduce the color of the world, and becomes a means of artists, art performance, no longer is only using color film color of record, photography and using color as performance technique, the expression of tool. Different artists use shading different colors show different emotions and conflict between the use of color, emphasize the contradiction between images or highlight the main body, and can use the harmonious color show the beauty of color images

Harmonious color, with harmonious color of pictures often can have a comfortable feeling, to get this kind of "harmony" must pay attention to the using of the transition color, give priority to color with another plus color transition as a "bridge" between the main color, reduce the conflicts between the two main color, picture view is "harmony". More commonly used method, is the same color; Different brightness and saturation of the color gradually supplement, from shallow to deep, from strong to weak, will produce the feeling of harmony. In general, with pictures taken of the same color, is more flattering a certain extent.

In addition, you can also use the color gradient to make the color change is successively and orderly, also can make the picture color is harmonious. But when these transition phase change colour does not exist, of two or more intense color connection occurs, picture it becomes a little bit hard, even is a kind of "conflict", but this kind of colour "conflict" is not a bad thing, there are some subjects often depends on the color of the impact of the "conflict" to strengthen it, to present a kind of tension or fantasy.

The color changes in temperature and activity

In addition to pay attention to the harmony of colour in the picture and visual psychological effects caused by the conflict, more people talking about the colors are psychological problem, believe that is the problem of tonal changes in temperature. Such as red, orange, yellow, longer belong to the "warm" the color of light, it comes from the light, give a person the sense of warmth, passion, and activities, and why, especially in the bright red of the ability to stimulate can make people feel nervous or emotional upset, so you should not to behave too warm static subjects; On the other hand, the green, green, blue wait for color, however, give a person a kind of relatively static feeling, make the person looked calm and peaceful mood, so called cold tonal, such as ice and snow and blues.

Of course, the color changes in temperature is only human subjective emotional response, not absolutely accurate, because human perception of color is so different culture background and individual background and have an effect, but generally speaking, to be by giving people the power of colour, and strengthen the expressive, his works must comply with the subjective understanding of the color of the masses.