Primary and Secondary Colours

Part 3 Colour
Project: What makes a colour
Exercise 1- Primary and Secondary colours
Aim: Show how colour can be affected by brightness.

It was defiantly a challenge to get all the pictures for this exercise using only natural subjects, and I had to use a man made object for the Blue pictures (the only natural Blues I found were either too light or dark than the pure shade I was looking for).  The effects different exposures had on the different colours was very interesting. Some did not seem to be affected much at all, such as Blue and Green, whereas Red, Violet and Orange appeared to be the most sensitive.

I found that the different colours seemed to "lead" to the colour next to them on the colour wheel as they got darker (or lighter). For example, the darker the Yellow appeared in the picture, the closer it got to the lighter Orange in the next set of pictures. This is also most evident in Violet and Blue but not so much with the other colours.

This exercise has helped me pick out and focus on individual colours in a picture, and to focus on the colour rather than the subject, which was an interesting change from what I'm used to.