Colour - final version of assignment #3

Decisions
The decisions made to create the final submission were:

• Keep unchanged the following images since they fit the brief:  Complementary Colours Harmony - 2, 3; Similar Colours Harmony - 7; Contrasting Colours - 9, 10, Colour Accent - 13, 14, 15
• Adjust Complementary Colours Harmony - 1, Shoes in Superdry window as follows: correct for original error in White Balance, blur the background and (because the blur didn't reduce the distractions as much as the tutor suggested) crop the image more closely
• Replace Complementary Colours Harmony - 4 with Forest and Lake in Autumn to respond to tutor's feedback that too many of the images presented for this assignment were simple close-ups
• Change Similar Colours Harmony - 5 with the shot of the Ceiling at Snog! , to provide an image that was less flat than the Autumn Leaves still life of the original project and that introduces more variety to the assignment
• Change Similar Colours Harmony -6 with the image of the men's shirts in the Shop Window, which seems to be fit the brief better than the shades of yellow and ochre of the Colonnade (my Tutor suggested re-framing the original to include people and café tables but (a) I could not return to the scene and (b) I think it would have distracted from the objective of showing similar colours in harmony)
• Reduce the bleeding of light (in Photoshop) onto the black background of the Pears on Book Similar Colours Harmony - 8 (definitely agree with my Tutor here)
• Substitute Contrasting Colours - 11 with a second shot of the St Giles Circus Office complex, as its predecessor (green and yellow flip flops) didn't fulfil the brief
• Change Contrasting Colours - 12 with an additional image from the Superdry Shop Window, as my Tutor thought the original looked like a snap (I thought that was harsh, frankly, but if that is the impression it risks, then it has to go!)
• Replace Colour Accent -16 with the Reflection of the Sky in the Window in the Wall, because the original failed (miserably!) to illustrate colour accent

Click here for: Original version of assignment 3


Images

A Harmony through complementary colours

 

1. Red and Green in 1:1 ratio
Superdry shop window,  Covent Garden

 

2. Blue and Orange approaching 2:1 ratio
Highlighter pens

 

3. Crimson Red on Light Greens, adjusted away from 1:1 to compensate
Crane in front of City of London office block 

4. Mixed shades of red and green, with some orange,
roughly equal space
Forest and lake in New England in autumn

 

B Harmony through similar colours

 

5. Light Blue and Purple
Ceiling of Snog!, Covent Garden
(frozen yoghurt store)

6. Shades of Blue and Green
Boutique in Verona
(where men's clothes are displayed just
as imaginatively as women's)

 

7. Blue and Green
Pennants advertising the 2012 Olympics, Covent Garden

 

8. Red, Orange to Yellow
Pears on book

C Contrast through contrasting colours

9. Orange and Violet, in 3:1 to compensate for
relative brightness of these colours
Door and wall of restaurant, Covent Garden

 

10. Yellow and Blue
Office block at St Giles Circus, London
 

11. Orange and Green
Another view of the office complex at St Giles Circus
(see previous image)

12. Yellow and Blue
Another section of Superdry's shop window
(see 1 above)

 

 

D Colour accent

 

13. Green accent on complementary red background
Apples stacked at Waitrose
(many thanks to the manager for agreeing to
let me photograph!)

14. Yellow, Dark Blue, Green and Orange on a Blue background
Ferris Wheel, New England

15. Red diagonal on Blue background
Crane reflected in glass of City of London office building

16. Light Blue on Peach and Brown
Window in a street in Verona