[Leica] PAW 18 - I really should stick to my promises!!

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

Hi Arche,

I find colour work more difficult, too, but what might help is:

a) to look for scenes with not that much color differences except for  
1 subject in the picture (f.i. everything is bluish, one element yellow)
b) idem, without the 1 subject difference (call it 'toned', if you  
want to)
c) truly eclectic colors of all kinds, mixed with out of focus zones.
Very often all the rest performs better in B&W, or in desaturated color.
But this ofcourse IMHO.

So, you can do color, just start with small doses :-)

Very helpful are books about the combining of colors. Lots of them  
around but I used this one alot: Color Design Workbook : A Real-World  
Guide to Using Color in Graphic Design by
Adams Morioka and Terry Stone

Good luck,
Philippe


Op 8-mei-06, om 15:35 heeft Arche, Harvey het volgende geschreven:

> Hey Sonny,
>
>
>
> My problem with color isn't what other people do with it, it's that I
> SUCK at it. I took a color theory course 25+ years ago that I would  
> have
> failed without major help from a classmate, and since then my  
> ability to
> deal with it has remained rudimentary. To the extent that I have  
> had any
> success with image making, its by avoiding my weaknesses as much as
> possible. Color, for some reason, is something I just don't respond  
> to;
> show me B&W and color versions of the same image, and 99 times out of
> 100 I'll prefer the B&W, especially in my own work.
>
>
>
> Please believe that the apologies I extend to you and Don, and  
> everyone
> else working in that vein, are meant to cover MY inabilities to fully
> appreciate, rather than to imply any inabilities on your parts as
> artists.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Arche
>
>
>
>
>
> Prior Exchange went:
>
> In a message dated 5/7/2006 10:09:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> Harvey.Arche@jp2hs.org writes:
>
> (apologies to Don, Sonny, et al.)
>
>
> For many years in my life, color was much more expensive than BW,  
> so  it
> was
> rare to shoot.  In my first years as a professional, BW was all we   
> had.
>
> God
> painted the flowers, and now that I can, I try to show what he  did.
>
> Nice work, but flowers oughta be colour.
>
>
>
>
>
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