So I’m now onto the third section of my coursework; Colour.
Hopefully this part will teach me how to use the colour in my photography to my advantage and to promote feelings through the subliminal messages colours create.
In this first exercise I have been looking at the strength of colours. I took a series of shots of the same door, with the speed of the shutter kept constant and changing the aperture by half a stop and one stop either way of what the cameras automatic meter suggested. It suggested the best speed and aperture was 1/60 at f/6.3. Below is the series of photographs:
1/60, f/5.6
1/60, f/6.3
1/60, f/7.1
1/60, f/8
As you can see with each increase of the aperture, the colour in each shot deepens and becomes much stronger, revealing more details the less washed out each one looks. They become more intense and over exposed the smaller the aperture becomes. In this circumstance it is helpful as there was very bright sunlight already illuminating the door and washing the colours out, but this was a useful exercise to learn how to make colours feel more intense in a shot and adjust them adequately to how you want the colour to appear to the viewer.
Exposure or brightness is mainly changed by the camera itself, although it can be done in photo editing software later on. Hue is the actual colour itself from the colour wheel and all its variations in between and cannot be changed. Saturation is a little harder to define, but could be explained as how ‘colourful’ something is.
Reading from the course material on my college website explains this and colour relationships a little better:
http://www.oca-uk.com/data/resources/basic-colour-theory.pdf
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