The ultimate guide to Color Theory, in just 12 minutes — Photography Visual Patterns #4
Summary
TLDR本视频深入探讨了色彩理论在摄影中的应用,解释了色调、饱和度、亮度和色彩温度等基本概念,并介绍了RGB色彩模式。视频中强调了色彩心理学的重要性,并讨论了如何通过色彩和谐组合——如类似色、单色和互补色——来提升摄影作品的视觉效果。最后,视频建议摄影师通过有意识地使用色彩和色彩组合来讲述故事,并提出了一个实践练习,即一周内每天拍摄同一颜色的不同构图,以加深对色彩的理解和应用。
Takeaways
- 🎨 颜色理论是摄影中提升作品层次的重要方式,通过有意识和系统性地使用颜色,可以使摄影作品更具艺术性。
- 🌈 色调(Hue)是纯粹的颜色选择,无关于明度或色调,通常在色轮上呈现为相邻颜色。
- 🔴 饱和度(Saturation)指的是颜色的强度,增加饱和度会使颜色更鲜艳,减少饱和度则会使颜色更柔和。
- 💡 亮度(Luminosity)代表颜色的明亮程度,可以通过添加白色或黑色来调整,但会影响颜色的饱和度。
- 🌡 色温(Temperature)描述颜色是偏冷还是偏暖,冷色调倾向于蓝色,暖色调倾向于橙色。
- 📐 数字空间中的RGB颜色模型与小学时混合手指画的方式不同,在屏幕上,红绿蓝三种颜色的光结合会产生更亮的光。
- 🎭 颜色心理学是客观存在的,不同颜色具有不同的情感和文化含义,如红色代表激情和危险,蓝色代表平静和信任。
- 🎨 色彩和谐(Color Harmony)是将颜色以视觉上吸引人的方式组合在一起,如类似色调、单色和互补色等。
- 🌟 Adobe Color是一款有用的工具,可以帮助理解和实践色彩和谐,通过调整滑块和调色板来探索不同的颜色组合。
- 📷 在摄影实践中,有意识地使用特定的颜色来强化故事叙述,如通过一周专注于一种颜色的拍摄来锻炼颜色意识和创造力。
- 📚 通过持续的实践和拍摄,可以提高对颜色的敏感度和记忆力,从而在需要时快速回忆并应用于摄影创作中。
Q & A
什么是色相(hue)?
-色相是指纯粹的颜色选择,没有加入色调(tint)或阴影(shade)。它通常在色轮上以相邻颜色的尺度呈现。
饱和度(saturation)在摄影中有什么作用?
-饱和度指的是颜色的强度。在摄影中,我们可以通过增加饱和度来使颜色更加鲜艳和生动,或者减少饱和度使颜色更加柔和和低调。
亮度(luminosity)如何影响颜色?
-亮度指的是特定颜色的明亮程度。可以通过向颜色中加入白色来增加亮度,但这样会减少颜色的饱和度;同样,加入黑色可以使颜色变暗,同时增加颜色的饱和度和丰富度。
色温(temperature)是什么?
-色温指的是颜色是偏向冷色调还是暖色调。冷色调倾向于蓝色,而暖色调倾向于橙色。
RGB色彩模型在数字摄影中是如何工作的?
-RGB色彩模型是数字摄影中使用的色彩空间,其中红(R)、绿(G)、蓝(B)每种颜色都是单独的光。当这些光混合在一起时,它们会产生更多的光,直到最终形成白色。
红色在色彩心理学中通常代表什么?
-红色在色彩心理学中通常代表危险、激情、兴奋、爱和能量。
黑色和白色在色彩心理学中分别代表什么?
-黑色通常被视为对比色,可以代表精致、权力、权威,有时也可以代表邪恶。白色则常被视为清洁、纯净、简单和无辜。
什么是色彩和谐(color harmony)?
-色彩和谐是指将颜色以视觉上吸引人的方式组合在一起。存在多种色彩和谐的方式,它们可以增强图像的视觉吸引力。
在摄影中,常见的三种色彩和谐组是什么?
-在摄影中,常见的三种色彩和谐组是类似色(analogous)、单色(monochromatic)和互补色(complementary)。
如何使用Adobe Color工具来探索色彩和谐?
-Adobe Color是一个免费的工具,可以用来探索和实验不同的色彩组合。用户可以通过调整滑块和调色板来创建和测试不同的色彩方案。
如何通过色彩来提升摄影作品的意义?
-通过有意识地将特定颜色融入作品中,可以增强图像的意义并帮助讲述摄影师试图传达的故事。使用色彩和谐组可以帮助创造视觉上和谐的作品。
如何通过实践来提高对色彩的敏感度和记忆?
-可以通过每周专注于一种颜色的摄影练习来提高对色彩的敏感度和记忆。每天拍摄10张不同构图的同一颜色的图像,一周结束时将拥有70张不同构图的图像,这有助于快速回忆并应用到未来的摄影创作中。
Outlines
🎨 色彩理论基础
本段介绍了色彩理论的基本概念,包括色调(hue)、饱和度(saturation)、亮度(luminositiy)和色彩的温度(temperature)。解释了这些概念在摄影中的应用,并提到了色彩对于艺术创作的重要性。同时,简要介绍了RGB色彩模式和色彩心理学,说明了不同颜色可能代表的多种情感和意义。
🎨 色彩和谐与应用
本段讨论了色彩和谐的应用,如何将颜色以视觉上吸引人的方式组合在一起。介绍了三种常见的色彩和谐组合:类似色(analogous)、单色(monochromatic)和互补色(complementary),并解释了它们的特点和在摄影中的应用。推荐了Adobe Color这个工具,以便更好地理解和实践色彩和谐。
📸 摄影中的色彩实践
最后一段强调了在摄影实践中有意识地使用色彩的重要性,并提出了一种基于习惯的练习方法,即一周专注于一种颜色进行拍摄。这种方法能够帮助摄影师更好地理解和记忆不同颜色的组合和意义,从而在未来的摄影作品中更有效地使用色彩来传达故事和情感。
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Keywords
💡视觉模式
💡色彩理论
💡色相
💡饱和度
💡亮度
💡色彩温度
💡RGB色彩空间
💡色彩心理学
💡色彩和谐
💡摄影实践
Highlights
视频系列介绍了视觉模式,旨在解析视觉语言并应用于摄影。
色彩是提升摄影作品的重要方式,需有计划和意图地使用。
色调是纯色,无色彩的明暗变化,是色彩选择的基础。
饱和度指色彩的强度,可以通过增加或减少饱和度来调整色彩的活力。
亮度指颜色的明暗程度,可通过添加白色或黑色来调整。
色彩温度区分颜色为冷色或暖色,冷色偏向蓝色,暖色偏向橙色。
数字空间中的色彩模型与小学时混合颜料的方式不同,使用RGB色彩空间。
色彩心理学是客观真理,不同文化和背景下颜色的意义可能有所不同。
色彩和谐是将颜色以视觉上吸引人的方式组合在一起。
Adobe Color是一个用于理解和探索色彩和谐的强大工具。
常见的色彩和谐规则包括类比、单色和互补。
通过一周专注于一种颜色的摄影练习,可以提升对色彩的敏感度和创造力。
实践中有意识地使用特定的颜色,可以帮助讲述更强有力的故事。
通过色彩理论,摄影师可以更好地在作品中传达意义和情感。
Transcripts
hello my lovely photos welcome back to
another video welcome back to the visual
pattern series the series where we break
down visual language into visual
patterns so that we can understand the
heuristics of visual language and how to
best apply it to our photography now if
you don't know what any of those terms
mean make sure to check out the very
first video in the series where i break
down all of those terms and exactly why
you would want to use visual patterns
over something say like photography
rules now in this video we're going to
be covering color theory for
photographers and this is a
an impossibly a large video topic to
cover in just one singular video
but we're going to try and do our very
best now color is a fantastic way to
elevate your photography if you use it
in a methodical and intentional way it's
not only great for photography but it's
also great across all disciplines of art
as well
so it's a really good skill to
understand for your creative process
now there's a lot to cover and i wanted
to start this video with understanding
terms so let's start with hue
now hue is just color selection plain
and simple it is pure color without the
tint or the shade some people like to
complicate this a little bit but simply
it's just the color that you're
selecting and most of the time it's
presented on a scale of adjacent colors
next to it the next term is saturation
saturation refers to the intensity of
color so once we take a color do we
increase the saturation and make it more
intense and more vibrant or do we make
it less saturated and more muted and
understated the next term is luminosity
which refers to how bright or how dark a
particular color is what we can do is we
can add white to a particular color to
increase how bright it is but doing so
will also decrease how saturated it is
as well conversely we can also take that
same base color and add black instead to
it making it darker and also increasing
the richness of its saturation as well
the next term is temperature temperature
refers to whether colors in general are
cool or they are warm cool colors
gravitate towards the color blue
and warm colors gravitate towards the
color orange okay from here i want to
talk a little bit about color models but
this can get really really technical
really really quickly so i will try and
keep it short now unlike in primary
school when you would mix finger paint
together the colors that you would mix
together back then would become darker
and they would become more rich
whereas in the digital space actually
the opposite is true in the digital
space we work with a color space called
rgb
and that doesn't actually work this way
you might have heard of rgb before or
you might have heard of srgb as the
color space before what this means is
that because we work on screens when
we're taking digital photographs and
we're looking at monitors and what have
you the screens actually project light
at us each color red green and blue is
an individual light and when the lights
are combined together they equal more
light until you get eventually white now
the whole thing about rgb gets a whole
bunch more complicated than that but
that's another video for another time
all you really need to know is that as a
photographer you will be using the srgb
color space and will be working in rgb
colors all right now we get to the
interesting part color psychology now
these are objective truths these are not
subjective truths although they do have
some subjective variants to them the
psychology of color has been greatly
studied for a very very long time now
and so a lot of these ideas are well
established and have been proven but as
i mentioned about subjectivity some of
these colors have different meanings for
different people depending on what kind
of culture you're from depending on what
kind of background you have depending on
external factors like branding and how
submersed in that particular brand you
are and what that means to you things
like upbringing things like environment
a whole bunch of external factors can
change the overall subjectivity of what
these colors mean to you but in general
these are what the colors mean red is
the color of danger passion excitement
love and energy orange is the color of
creativity of happiness friendliness and
confidence yellow is the color of
warning optimism prosperity and joy
green is the color of health nature
freshness and luck
blue is a color of calm serenity trust
and reliability purple is the color of
luxury wealth virtue and comfort black
isn't a color it is a contrast but it
can be seen as having sophistication
power authority and being evil and white
can be seen as clean and pure simple and
innocent the effective and selective
usage of these colors in our photography
can really help elevate our meaning in
our images and help us tell the stories
that we're trying to tell so now that we
know all of the meanings of these colors
what we can start to do is actually
group them together in ways that look
harmonious in ways that look natural
together so we can do so with what's
called color harmony groups
color harmony is simply the
grouping together of colors in ways that
look visually appealing and there are
some ways that are more appealing than
others now what we can do is start to
gravitate towards a particular palette
that we create and we can start to
accentuate this palette within our
photography now a tool that i love using
when it comes to color and understanding
color harmony in general just playing
around with all these different colors
it's called adobe color i love this tool
i've used it for over 15-ish years in my
previous career and it's still something
that i used to this day this is not
sponsored but it's just a product that i
love that's free and you can play around
with all the sliders and palettes and
all that kind of stuff and it's great so
what i want to do is introduce you to
three of the most common color harmony
groups so that you can get a good
understanding of those and then from
there you can dive into different color
harmony groups if you would like
now the three color harmony groups that
we have commonly in photography are
analogous monochromatic and
complementary the analogous rule is
three or more hues that are evenly
fanned out from a key middle color on
the wheel
you can often find these color schemes
in nature especially in things like
sunsets or gradients of the sky or the
texture of the ocean and so so much more
the next common color harmony rule is
monochromatic which uses a single key
color and accents it with colors of a
different saturation and different
luminosity this is super super easy to
use in photography both to find in the
world and to edit in post-production and
the last common color harmony group that
i want to introduce you guys to is
complementary the complementary color
harmony rule takes a key color and
supplements it with the opposite color
on the wheel this creates a color
contrast which is quite appealing and
because of the contrast stands out quite
a lot now you'll see this color harmony
group in film in movies in photography
pretty much everywhere nowadays and the
most common color selection from this
particular group is teal and orange
right now now as i mentioned there are
of course a bunch of other different
color harmony groups here as well so
feel free to dig into any one of those
there is no right or wrong answer on how
to use different color harmony groups
it's just a suggestion of a palette that
you may or may not be able to apply to
your photography now for me and my
photography i play around with three
different colors i play around with like
a kind of
between a light baby blue to a cobalt
blue and then a lot of white and then a
lot of orange so oftentimes i'm actually
using analogous colors when it comes to
my orange and for the blues i'm tending
towards a monochromatic palette with the
whites and the blues working together
alrighty now that we know all of this
information now we can put it all
together in something that's actually
practical and we can actually put into
practice
now when you're out shooting go and ask
yourself when you're shooting why are
you shooting the things that you're
shooting and how can you use color
specifically to accent or to bolster or
to even help the story that you're
trying to tell try and push yourself to
deliberately incorporate color into your
work and specific colors and do it with
intention now if you're looking for a
habit-based practice to go out and do
yourself
and at the risk of sounding like a
broken record because i feel like i give
this advice every single time but in
different ways
spend the entire week
with one singular color and shoot that
color every single day of the week shoot
10 of that same color
different compositions every single day
so that you end up at the end of the
week with 70 different images of the
same color
now this might sound really simple and
mundane and kind of boring but i assure
you it is extremely difficult it is very
hard and it is going to
push you and stretch you creatively in
order for you to find these compositions
and be able to identify these things in
the real world now this practice works
really well and i'll tell you why
when you
physically get out there and physically
take that image
that burns that particular item of that
composition into your subconscious so at
the end of the week you'll end up with
70 different compositions that you can
quickly recall
for that particular color when you need
it you might not need it now you might
not need it next year you might not even
need it a couple of years down the road
but knowing these compositions exist
based on this color
is something that's super super powerful
for your recall for you to be able to
use to
give meaning and help tell the story
that you're trying to tell in your
photography now consider this example
you're doing straight photography and
you decided to pick the color red this
week and you find this amazing red brick
wall
now people are walking past this wall
and you taking a photo of someone plus
this red wall
it would be a pretty good composition
but because you're doing red
if you are practicing red then you would
know
that green is a complementary color to
red and so
if you are studying red for that
particular week rather than just taking
a photo of any person walking past this
wall if you were to wait for a person
that was wearing green
that would make the composition a whole
bunch stronger potentially or at least
you would have the foresight to be able
to put that together in order to
potentially tell that story that you're
trying to tell
now it is this
really fast recall and this practice
that enables that recall that is the
crux of this particular practice which
is why i keep recommending this style of
practice
all the time we call them photo
assignments so you can think of it like
that you are assigning yourself a task
to do
so that you can practice it so that you
can get good at it so that you can
recall it quickly down the line and
really start to improve your photography
alright i think that's going to be it
for this particular video on the visual
pattern series this was color theory in
photography i'll see you in the next
video but until then get out there and
make something that matters
peace
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