It’s been almost 80 years since this revolutionary first color negative revolutionized the way images are captured and interpreted in photography. Most of us were born into the age of color. Color televisions, color movies, digital color cameras. Everybody’s in color. That should make things easier for us when it comes to meeting him, right, the truth is that it’s like our mother tongue; Knowing him and talking about him doesn’t necessarily mean knowing how to write it, does it, how many years has the man communicated orally and how long has he been able to write widely?
The same goes for color, you know? Speak in color?It doesn’t necessarily mean knowing how to “write it”, for this you have to know a little “the alphabet of colors”, which fortunately is much shorter than that of our mother tongue?
First, let’s go with some basics about color that will help you learn how to play:
And now that we’ve gone into the basics of color, let’s look at 20 tricks so you can get wonderful color images:
Whatever result you want, when shooting in color, it is recommended to set the color space in Adobe RVB. Most digital cameras come with sRVB by default because this format takes up less space, but with Adobe RVB, the amount of color stored is greater, and as a result, their details, approximation, and accuracy are greater.
Another adjustment you should make before considering taking color images is white balance, especially if you don’t take RAW photos. White balance is nothing more than the color temperature. There are warm orange lights, yellowish, bluish or cold greenish lights, you can correct them until you get a neutral tone in your image or you can play with those same tones, to get different images.
As a photographer, one of the things that will definitely put you in the head is to learn how to control the exposure, this can be a small mistake or a big mistake, but the truth is that any adjustment you make to change the exposure of your image changes the original colors of the image, so if you don’t want it to happen, if you want to be as faithful as possible to the image in front of you , tries to expose as accurately as possible.
The most important images are those in which light, white and clarity dominate, those that inspire positive feelings or purity, so it is easy to see this technique combined with images of children or babies, but the truth is that you can use it. in any context; you just need a white background and lots of light.
The low tone conveys the opposite of the high tone, based on darkness, mystery, strength or elegance.
Negative space is another element of your image composition. It is based on the distribution of the image through a main element or focus, and a more or less wide “empty” space or with little information, so that this “negative” space enhances the main element or “positive space” in the composition.
I’m sure on more than one occasion you’ve been caught in macro photography. The ability to represent giant ants, petals, snails on such a scale is fascinating, isn’t it?Surely you will also be fascinated by the “blur” so clear that it provokes and gives us images with a nice pictorial effect as in the following image. If you like the blurry background color effect, try opening the diaphragm as much as you can to reduce depth of field and you’ll get an effect not as sharp as macro, but more affordable if you don’t practice this type of photography.
As a photographer and at the same time a viewer, you probably agree with me that we usually all like images that surprise us in a certain way, you don’t need this image to be even strange, many times you just need one element that stands out from others to activate our interest. There are many cameras that allow you to choose an image color to maintain it and convert the rest of the image to black and white. You can also do it quite easily in Photoshop and other image edits AND if you don’t have any of the above options or don’t feel like using them, you can look for a handful of gray stones and a cherry, it’s all about imagination.
In the introduction to color we talk about complementary colors such as those that contrast in the chromatic circle, these colors combined with each other, have the highest degree of visual contrast that can be achieved in a color image, for example, yellow and blue. they are complementary If you combine them into one image, you will get a high contrast image where both elements will be highlighted by combining them with their opposite color.
Visually, cold colors “backward” and warm colors “advance” in the image, you know that?Are you sure you find a way to exploit it in your color images?
Often, the best images are the simplest; those that anyone with a little desire, imagination and photographic eye can build in a short time and anywhere. Look at the picture below and you’ll see what I mean?
Color is yet another element of the composition, and as such, you should not forget to combine it with other elements that add interest to your image Can the play of lights and shadows give you beautiful images worthy of the best Impressionist painting?
Yes:
a) It has a lens with a good diaphragm aperture
b) You like to try new things
c) You have a tripod
d) You like the image below
Then you have to try the bokeh effect, you will love it and the color results are amazing, if we can. Can you do amazing things without Photoshop!?
To increase contrast, remove reflections, highlight warm or cold colors in a scene, for infrared photography or for artistic effects, if you like color photography, at some point you will need to use one of the filters recommended in this article.
If you like color photography, you can not miss the wonderful light of a sunrise or sunset, the colors, textures, the light that is breathed at this time is unique, do not miss it, the photograph can be done every hour, but not every hour will give you the same images.
Now you will have discovered the benefits of elements such as shadows or reflections to improve your compositions and make them more interesting, I am wrong ??
The best images are always the ones that explain a concept that comes to us or that we can understand, we always say it and I don’t think we ever get out, your images have to talk, they have to explain something to us. , they have to move us, make us smile or provoke aversion, but you have to feel something when you look at them and you are in charge of transmitting that emotion to us What do you think?Difficult? None of that, get carried away and you’ll see it’s easier than it looks?
Each of the colors has many emotions associated with it. Red does not transmit the same as green or yellow as blue. Let’s take a closer look at how each color carries or provokes particular sensations.
If you had to photograph your newborn nephew on a red background, you might think about it, right?
Nature always gives beautiful images to lovers of color photography, its trees of infinite shades in autumn, the birth of its flowers in spring, its colorful insects and its impossible designs . . . but also its colorful atmospheric phenomena such as rainbows. You’re unlucky looking for this beautiful phenomenon, why don’t you take a bath or prepare it with yourself outside?Soap bubbles are able to reflect the same colors as the best rainbow you’ve ever seen (if the one who doesn’t practice all the time is because he doesn’t want to?)
This trick is the best of all, the one that will help you the most, teach, motivate and inspire, without it we are nothing. Without it, the camera would return to its original box in less time than it takes to change shoes. To be better, to understand the light, to free yourself from the rules and regulations and tutorials and endless questions, you have to practice. Until you get tired? And start over, because you’ll see, passionate or passionate about photography, passions don’t stay that way, they always end up coming back and sometimes even more strongly, because when something moves us it’s because I’m sure I’m not talking about anything that doesn’t look like you.
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