The ultimate guide to Color Theory, in just 12 minutes — Photography Visual Patterns #4

Pat Kay
17 Aug 202112:04

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

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🎨 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。

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🎨 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。

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📸 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。

Mindmap

Keywords

💡视觉模式

视觉模式是指将视觉语言分解成不同的视觉元素,以便我们理解视觉语言的启发式规则以及如何将其最佳应用于摄影。在视频中,讨论视觉模式是为了帮助摄影师通过理解色彩、形状和构图等视觉元素来提升他们的摄影技巧。

💡色彩理论

色彩理论是研究色彩如何影响视觉感知以及如何在艺术作品中运用色彩的学问。在视频中,色彩理论被用来教导摄影师如何通过有意识和系统地使用色彩来提升他们的摄影作品。

💡色相

色相是指纯粹的颜色,不包含任何色调或阴影。它是颜色选择的基础,通常在一个色轮上以相邻颜色的形式呈现。在摄影中,选择合适的色相对于表达图像的情感和氛围至关重要。

💡饱和度

饱和度描述了颜色的强度,即颜色看起来有多鲜艳或多柔和。提高饱和度会使颜色更加生动和强烈,而降低饱和度则会使颜色更加柔和和低调。在摄影中,调整饱和度可以帮助摄影师控制图像的情感影响力。

💡亮度

亮度是指颜色的明暗程度。通过向颜色中加入白色可以提高亮度,使颜色看起来更亮,但同时也会降低饱和度。相反,加入黑色可以增加颜色的深度,同时提高饱和度。亮度的调整对于创造视觉对比和平衡图像非常重要。

💡色彩温度

色彩温度描述了颜色是偏向暖色调还是冷色调。暖色调通常与红色、橙色相关联,而冷色调则与蓝色相关。色彩温度的概念在摄影中用于创造不同的氛围和情绪。

💡RGB色彩空间

RGB色彩空间是一种用于数字摄影和显示设备的加色模式,其中R代表红色,G代表绿色,B代表蓝色。在RGB模式下,这三种基本颜色的光可以通过不同比例的混合来产生其他颜色。与减色模式(如印刷使用的CMYK)不同,在RGB模式中颜色的混合会产生更亮的效果。

💡色彩心理学

色彩心理学研究颜色如何影响人类的情绪和行为。不同的颜色可以引发不同的心理反应,这些反应可能因文化、背景和个人经历而异。在摄影中,了解色彩心理学可以帮助摄影师更好地传达特定的情感和信息。

💡色彩和谐

色彩和谐是指将颜色以视觉上吸引人的方式进行组合。通过使用特定的色彩搭配规则,如类似色、单色和互补色,摄影师可以创造出既美观又和谐的照片。

💡摄影实践

摄影实践是指摄影师通过实际操作来提高技能和创造力的过程。在视频中,建议摄影师通过专注于单一颜色的拍摄练习来挑战自己,从而加深对色彩运用的理解和创造力。

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

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hello my lovely photos welcome back to

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another video welcome back to the visual

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pattern series the series where we break

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down visual language into visual

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patterns so that we can understand the

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heuristics of visual language and how to

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best apply it to our photography now if

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you don't know what any of those terms

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mean make sure to check out the very

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first video in the series where i break

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down all of those terms and exactly why

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you would want to use visual patterns

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over something say like photography

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rules now in this video we're going to

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be covering color theory for

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photographers and this is a

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an impossibly a large video topic to

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cover in just one singular video

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but we're going to try and do our very

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best now color is a fantastic way to

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elevate your photography if you use it

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in a methodical and intentional way it's

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not only great for photography but it's

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also great across all disciplines of art

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as well

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so it's a really good skill to

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understand for your creative process

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now there's a lot to cover and i wanted

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to start this video with understanding

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terms so let's start with hue

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now hue is just color selection plain

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and simple it is pure color without the

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tint or the shade some people like to

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complicate this a little bit but simply

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it's just the color that you're

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selecting and most of the time it's

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presented on a scale of adjacent colors

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next to it the next term is saturation

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saturation refers to the intensity of

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color so once we take a color do we

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increase the saturation and make it more

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intense and more vibrant or do we make

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it less saturated and more muted and

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understated the next term is luminosity

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which refers to how bright or how dark a

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particular color is what we can do is we

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can add white to a particular color to

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increase how bright it is but doing so

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will also decrease how saturated it is

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as well conversely we can also take that

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same base color and add black instead to

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it making it darker and also increasing

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the richness of its saturation as well

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the next term is temperature temperature

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refers to whether colors in general are

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cool or they are warm cool colors

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gravitate towards the color blue

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and warm colors gravitate towards the

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color orange okay from here i want to

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talk a little bit about color models but

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this can get really really technical

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really really quickly so i will try and

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keep it short now unlike in primary

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school when you would mix finger paint

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together the colors that you would mix

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together back then would become darker

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and they would become more rich

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whereas in the digital space actually

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the opposite is true in the digital

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space we work with a color space called

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rgb

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and that doesn't actually work this way

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you might have heard of rgb before or

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you might have heard of srgb as the

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color space before what this means is

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that because we work on screens when

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we're taking digital photographs and

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we're looking at monitors and what have

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you the screens actually project light

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at us each color red green and blue is

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an individual light and when the lights

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are combined together they equal more

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light until you get eventually white now

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the whole thing about rgb gets a whole

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bunch more complicated than that but

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that's another video for another time

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all you really need to know is that as a

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photographer you will be using the srgb

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color space and will be working in rgb

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colors all right now we get to the

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interesting part color psychology now

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these are objective truths these are not

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subjective truths although they do have

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some subjective variants to them the

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psychology of color has been greatly

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studied for a very very long time now

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and so a lot of these ideas are well

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established and have been proven but as

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i mentioned about subjectivity some of

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these colors have different meanings for

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different people depending on what kind

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of culture you're from depending on what

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kind of background you have depending on

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external factors like branding and how

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submersed in that particular brand you

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are and what that means to you things

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like upbringing things like environment

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a whole bunch of external factors can

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change the overall subjectivity of what

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these colors mean to you but in general

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these are what the colors mean red is

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the color of danger passion excitement

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love and energy orange is the color of

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creativity of happiness friendliness and

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confidence yellow is the color of

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warning optimism prosperity and joy

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green is the color of health nature

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freshness and luck

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blue is a color of calm serenity trust

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and reliability purple is the color of

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luxury wealth virtue and comfort black

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isn't a color it is a contrast but it

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can be seen as having sophistication

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power authority and being evil and white

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can be seen as clean and pure simple and

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innocent the effective and selective

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usage of these colors in our photography

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can really help elevate our meaning in

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our images and help us tell the stories

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that we're trying to tell so now that we

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know all of the meanings of these colors

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what we can start to do is actually

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group them together in ways that look

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harmonious in ways that look natural

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together so we can do so with what's

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called color harmony groups

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color harmony is simply the

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grouping together of colors in ways that

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look visually appealing and there are

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some ways that are more appealing than

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others now what we can do is start to

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gravitate towards a particular palette

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that we create and we can start to

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accentuate this palette within our

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photography now a tool that i love using

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when it comes to color and understanding

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color harmony in general just playing

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around with all these different colors

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it's called adobe color i love this tool

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i've used it for over 15-ish years in my

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previous career and it's still something

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that i used to this day this is not

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sponsored but it's just a product that i

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love that's free and you can play around

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with all the sliders and palettes and

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all that kind of stuff and it's great so

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what i want to do is introduce you to

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three of the most common color harmony

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groups so that you can get a good

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understanding of those and then from

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there you can dive into different color

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harmony groups if you would like

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now the three color harmony groups that

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we have commonly in photography are

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analogous monochromatic and

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complementary the analogous rule is

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three or more hues that are evenly

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fanned out from a key middle color on

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the wheel

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you can often find these color schemes

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in nature especially in things like

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sunsets or gradients of the sky or the

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texture of the ocean and so so much more

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the next common color harmony rule is

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monochromatic which uses a single key

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color and accents it with colors of a

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different saturation and different

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luminosity this is super super easy to

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use in photography both to find in the

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world and to edit in post-production and

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the last common color harmony group that

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i want to introduce you guys to is

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complementary the complementary color

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harmony rule takes a key color and

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supplements it with the opposite color

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on the wheel this creates a color

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contrast which is quite appealing and

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because of the contrast stands out quite

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a lot now you'll see this color harmony

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group in film in movies in photography

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pretty much everywhere nowadays and the

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most common color selection from this

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particular group is teal and orange

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right now now as i mentioned there are

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of course a bunch of other different

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color harmony groups here as well so

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feel free to dig into any one of those

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there is no right or wrong answer on how

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to use different color harmony groups

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it's just a suggestion of a palette that

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you may or may not be able to apply to

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your photography now for me and my

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photography i play around with three

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different colors i play around with like

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a kind of

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between a light baby blue to a cobalt

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blue and then a lot of white and then a

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lot of orange so oftentimes i'm actually

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using analogous colors when it comes to

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my orange and for the blues i'm tending

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towards a monochromatic palette with the

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whites and the blues working together

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alrighty now that we know all of this

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information now we can put it all

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together in something that's actually

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practical and we can actually put into

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practice

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now when you're out shooting go and ask

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yourself when you're shooting why are

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you shooting the things that you're

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shooting and how can you use color

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specifically to accent or to bolster or

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to even help the story that you're

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trying to tell try and push yourself to

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deliberately incorporate color into your

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work and specific colors and do it with

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intention now if you're looking for a

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habit-based practice to go out and do

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yourself

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and at the risk of sounding like a

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broken record because i feel like i give

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this advice every single time but in

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different ways

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spend the entire week

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with one singular color and shoot that

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color every single day of the week shoot

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10 of that same color

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different compositions every single day

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so that you end up at the end of the

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week with 70 different images of the

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same color

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now this might sound really simple and

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mundane and kind of boring but i assure

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you it is extremely difficult it is very

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hard and it is going to

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push you and stretch you creatively in

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order for you to find these compositions

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and be able to identify these things in

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the real world now this practice works

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really well and i'll tell you why

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when you

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physically get out there and physically

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take that image

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that burns that particular item of that

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composition into your subconscious so at

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the end of the week you'll end up with

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70 different compositions that you can

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quickly recall

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for that particular color when you need

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it you might not need it now you might

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not need it next year you might not even

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need it a couple of years down the road

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but knowing these compositions exist

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based on this color

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is something that's super super powerful

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for your recall for you to be able to

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use to

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give meaning and help tell the story

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that you're trying to tell in your

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photography now consider this example

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you're doing straight photography and

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you decided to pick the color red this

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week and you find this amazing red brick

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wall

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now people are walking past this wall

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and you taking a photo of someone plus

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this red wall

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it would be a pretty good composition

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but because you're doing red

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if you are practicing red then you would

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know

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that green is a complementary color to

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red and so

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if you are studying red for that

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particular week rather than just taking

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a photo of any person walking past this

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wall if you were to wait for a person

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that was wearing green

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that would make the composition a whole

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bunch stronger potentially or at least

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you would have the foresight to be able

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to put that together in order to

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potentially tell that story that you're

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trying to tell

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now it is this

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really fast recall and this practice

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that enables that recall that is the

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crux of this particular practice which

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is why i keep recommending this style of

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practice

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all the time we call them photo

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assignments so you can think of it like

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that you are assigning yourself a task

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to do

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so that you can practice it so that you

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can get good at it so that you can

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recall it quickly down the line and

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really start to improve your photography

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alright i think that's going to be it

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for this particular video on the visual

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pattern series this was color theory in

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photography i'll see you in the next

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video but until then get out there and

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make something that matters

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peace

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