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Friday, March 26, 2010

Colour Fun

I had fun playing withe colours in this set of family vacation photos. I did figure out two good lessons by experimentation.



Firstly, it can be useful to compress the colour range to create an apparent depth. I really managed to make the colours in the kite pop out by slicing off the top and bottom of the colour range.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithco/4464331426/



Secondly, black & white can be made more interesting by pushing the hues slightly to one colour. Here, I pushed the colour slightly towards blue.



http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithco/4464341186/

Thirdly, the “rule of thirds” was something I read somewhere, though I don’t recall exactly where. A bit of tinkering gave me some nice composition results. What was a cute, but bland photo of Harrison was made much better by cropping
it such that he was centred on the intersection of the lower and right third dividers.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithco/4463551035

The full set of photos is at http://www.flickr.com/photos/smithco/sets/72157623581272873/

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