It’s quite an extraordinary thing, color. It can enhance or diminish emotion in a digital photo. It’s really that powerful. Yet working with color, it can assist the photographer to emphasize, dramatize or detract from a certain feeling in a digital photograph. Its funny that color can impact our senses to such a degree. When there is the absence or presence of certain colors we can feel a certain level and depth of emotion.
So how can we add drama to photos by using color? Well the first thing to understand about color is what it does to our senses as I have just briefly mentioned. To understand what impact color has on us think of a digital photo that has we must look at what colors mean. For example think of a color that has lots of yellow in it. A photo with a color like this reflects energy, a sense of optimism, extroversion. The same goes for red, which is a quite intense color if used as the main subjects color. Red can have an impact especially if its against a contrasting color, which we’ll get into in a moment. These warm colors such as yellows, oranges, reds, etc have a strong photographic presence. In other words it’s kind of hard to ignore them.
Now let’s take a look at the other side of the scale; the cooler, more introverted colors. Colors that are emotionally quieter are blues, purples and greens. These colors tend to be a little less energetic but don’t be fooled into thinking they are any less passionate as the bold reds. These introverted colors tend to offer us a depth, visually, that we would not get from the warmer colors.
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by BENIPAYO
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