Do you have an eye for colour in your photography?
Using colour helps to create mood and feelings in photographs and may result in a photo that is more pleasing to the eye.
Photographers can create a heightened level of visual interest and enhance photos by seeking out particular colour harmonies in the environment.
Such colour combinations may be
- analogous
- complementary
- monochromatic
Capturing Reds, Yellows and Orange tones is an example of an Analogous colour scheme.
Seeking out or deliberately combining the following colours may complement and enhance each other.
- Oranges and Blues
- Reds with Greens
- Yellows with Purple
Keep in mind the saturation and the value of colours will alter the way they go together.
A split complementary colour scheme might include shades of Red, Orange and Blueish-green. Josef Alber’s images are an example.
Using a certain background colour in our photographs can also influence how our subject appears. There is more of an explanation here relating to using colour to enhance food photography.
This week’s prompt for Friendly Friday is for you to find or create
Colour Harmonies
Create a Friendly Friday Challenge Post
Simply add a pingback and tag ‘Friendly Friday – Colour Harmonies‘ to your own post, then return here, leave a comment below adding your published link, so we can find your post.
If this is your first challenge contribution, there is a full set of instructions on how to join the Friendly Friday Photo Challenge on my blog header.
Everyone is welcome to join in.
I will return in two weeks time with another Friendly Friday post.
Next week, you will be in the able hands of Sandy, my Friendly Friday co-host, who will post the new Friendly Friday prompt.
Something to Ponder About 
Fun to find out nature lends to many “analogous” colour schemes, which is what I am drawn to. Fun prompt, thank you!
https://offshoots12.com/2020/08/15/friendly-friday-colour-harmonies/
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Nature does colour harmony best. But we can add a few little touches here and there, can’t we Sheila?
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Of course, the editing is half the fun!
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Indeed, Sheila. One can spend hours playing around with edits on photos. Which editor do you use?
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I shoot my images in RAW format so I process/edit them all in Capture One software. My go-to phone photo editing app is Snapseed. What about you?
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I do like Snapseed but also have used Picsart, Pixlr and VCSO. Snapseed is the most versatile I think.
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I always use PicsArt to make my collages. I like that the don’t make you put a watermark on them like other apps do. I use Pixlr all of the time to resize my phone images for use on my blog to save space. It’s nice that there are so many options to choose from.
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Congratulation on ten years of blogging. I’m glad you stuck to it and hopefully will be around for a long time.
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Thank you for the kind words, Phyllis. I hope to be inspired to write here in another decade, but who knows. The cyber world is a paradox, so tenuous but also persistent.
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It’s also fickle. I’ll post something and think, “This is brilliant.” The rest of the world will say, “Whatever.”
There are times I’ll think, “Whatever.” But everyone else writes, “Great Job.”
And yet we keep posting—because it’s fun. 😁
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There is no accounting for personal taste. We are all so different! And then sometimes, the time that we post is important too.
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Good thing it’s fun.
And we get to meet people from all around the world.
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Sorry. Beautiful post.
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Why did you say sorry?
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Very helpful tips here. Thank you.
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So pleased that you found them useful and applicable to your photography.
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Beautiful clicks Amanda.Love the ‘baklandet buildings’.
I guess it’s the specialty in Nordic countries.Amazing color combinations.Loved your flower example click too.
There must be some science behind these complimentary colours which make a visual treat.
Probably as a photographer,one must be aware of the color combinations !
My contribution
https://philosophyvia.photos/2020/08/17/colour-harmonies/
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I feel sure that there is some science behind the colour theory. Josef Albers wrote a whole book and investigated it some years ago. I think we shoot what appeals to our eyes, but it might help a staged photographic composition more than a natural set up.
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Couldn’t agree more
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Lovely night vistas for the challenge, Ju-Lyn!
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