In this assignment I show my command of colour in photography. The aim is to find and use different colours in deliberate relationships. This assignment was a bit hard for me because I tried to find the colours in nature (which was too difficult because we have not that much colour in nature this time of year). I then settled for using the colours I found and the rest are artificial colours (paint or other materials) or flowers that I bought for photography purpose. (more…)
Exercise: Colours into tones in black-and-white
In modern photo editing software it is easy to create different variations of BW photographs. Digital images are easily processed in Photoshop or similar application. I’m using Adobe Lightroom for my RAW development and archiving my photographs. Some photographs I do post process in Photoshop but not really that many. For this exercise I chose a photograph of balloons of different colours. (more…)
Exrcise: Colour relationships
The first part of this exercise is to produce one photograph of each combination of primary and secondary colours. The second part is to produce a few pictures of colour combinations that appeal to me. This is easy; no rules. I tried to find or create photographs that I can show primary colour and the secondary colour just on the opposite side of the colourwheel. (more…)
Exercise: Primary and secondary colours
For this exercise the purpose was to find scenes or make pictures that are dominated by a single one of the primary and secondary colours. I have tried to avoid painted or other artificial colours but unfortunately it has been impossible to totally avoid them. I have taken three exposures of each picture to see how exposure affect the colours. (more…)
Exercise: Control the strength of a colour
Colour have three qualities that define it; hue, saturation and brightness. Hue is the essential quality which decide how we name a colour. In digital photography we can easily affect the colours at the time of shooting by selecting the right or wrong white balance. Or to be precise in artistic way of thinking there is no right or wrong. There are physics that define the wavelength of the light but that is physics, not photography. (more…)
Part three of the course: Colour
I just started the part three of my course. This is all about colour. Some exercises expect me to take colourful photographs from the nature but that is not going to happen. Why, well, look at the above photograph. That’s how the nature looks like. And that’s how the nature will look like still for some weeks. So, for me it is a trip to a flower shop and to a food store to look for colourful fruits.
About photographing funerals
Yesterday I did photograph a funeral as a service to a friend. Funerals are never pleasant ceremonies but they are part of our lives and such they should be documented as any other ceremony. Funerals have a special atmosphere and the photographer should know how to act but still be bold enough to photograph during the ceremony. In this blog post I try to tell what I believe is important for successful funeral photography and give some hints. (more…)
Assignment 2: Elements of design
The idea of this assignment is to incorporate the insights I have learned so far. In this assignment I have used the same elements of design that I have demonstrated in the recent exercises. (more…)
Exercise: Rhythms and patterns
The aim of this exercise is to produce two photographs; one should convey rhythm and the other pattern. In rhythm there is a sequence in the picture so that the eye will follow a direction and experience an optical beat. A pattern is something that fill the picture and make the viewer to imagine the same pattern to continue beyond the frame. (more…)
Exercise: Real and implied triangles
A definable shape organizes parts of picture and using shapes is a one of the fundamentals of design is to provide structure to an image. Shapes can be used to group things together which helps viewers to see the image as it is meant to. In this exercise I was to produce two sets of triangular compositions. One set using ‘real’ triangles and the second set using implied triangles. (more…)