Colour

Colour

Colour can indicate different moods and emotions within a photograph. For example, the colour yellow can present a very happy and bright mood to the picture. However, the colour blue can be seen as a sad, almost depressing effect applied when in an image. 

(Sad Photography)

(Happy Photography)

(Billie Eilish Music Video- Sad Photography)

(Little Mix Music Video- Happy Photography)

Definitions:

• Analogous colours next to each other on the colour wheel "get along" and are referred to as being harmonious. Analogous colours are often used in visual design and have a soothing affect.
• Complimentary colours exhibit more contrast when positioned adjacent to each other -for example yellow appears more intense when positioned on or beside blue or violet (see picture below).
  

(Analogous)

(Muted Photography)

(Intense Photography)

(Saturated Photography)

(Warm Photography)

(Cool Photography)

(Vivid Photography)

(Dull Photography)

William Egglestone

William Eggleston was born July 1939 and is an American Photographer. He is widely credited for increasing recoginition for colour photography as a lgitimate artistic medium.

I like the style of his work as it presents a wide variety of certain colours within very unique and different settings/objects. However, a majority of his work is setting quite a happy and vibrant mood within the photos. There is not a majority of dark colours or negative emotions within many of the photographs.

Martin Parr

Martin Parr was born May 1952 and is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, stratical and anthropological look at aspects. I enjoy his sense of comedy within the photographs but he also doesn't seem to produce many pieces of work with holding a negative mood or dark colours. Therefore, when taking my own photographs I plan to focus on both different moods/effects that can be created.

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