Black and white photography is a perfect lie. We must not let colour destroy this image. - Patrick Summerfield
One very important difference between color and monochromatic photography is this: in black and white you suggest; in color you state. Much can be implied by suggestion, but statement demands certainty… absolute certainty. - Paul Outerbridge - [Julia Scully, “Seeing pictures”, Modern Photography, Oct. 1976, p. 8]
Emotional Look at Color
What's more real - Color or Black and White Photography? Why?
Colorization of Historic B&W photos article
Color can have an emotional response on your body and mind and different colors can elicit different emotions. So what do different colors mean? What emotions can certain colors escalate?
Your assignment #2 is to explore one dominant color of your choice to create a photograph depicting a particular emotion.
To gain some more insight on the topic of color as emotion, some detailed color meanings can be found by clicking here or additional links are provided in the A2 Color as Emotion Assignment Blog Post.
What's more real - Color or Black and White Photography? Why?
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| © Eddie Adams |
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| Colorization by Sanna Dullaway |
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| © Malcolm Browne |
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| Colorization by Sanna Dullaway |
Colorization of Historic B&W photos article
Color can have an emotional response on your body and mind and different colors can elicit different emotions. So what do different colors mean? What emotions can certain colors escalate?
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| © Andres Serrano - "Piss Christ" |
Your assignment #2 is to explore one dominant color of your choice to create a photograph depicting a particular emotion.
To gain some more insight on the topic of color as emotion, some detailed color meanings can be found by clicking here or additional links are provided in the A2 Color as Emotion Assignment Blog Post.
Wikipedia article on Color
Additive Color - In class review
In class we also explored how 3 flashes (each with respective red, green, and blue filters affixed to them) when popped independent of each other produced all the other colors we can see. Some results are below. Also notice how the subtractive primaries are produced in the shadows when shot on a white background. This results when the blue shadow, for instance, is filled with both the red and green flashes - thus illustrating that when red and green light mix, we do indeed produce yellow light.
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| Red flash, Green flash, and Blue flash shadows produce the subtractive primaries CMY |
