Comments on: When is a colour photograph? http://www.thistonybridge.com/2009/12/11/when-is-a-colour-photograph Christchurch Photographer Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:34:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: doc http://www.thistonybridge.com/2009/12/11/when-is-a-colour-photograph/comment-page-1#comment-23865 doc Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:59:01 +0000 http://www.thistonybridge.com/?p=1284#comment-23865 If you have the time and the interest have a look at this article on colors and emotions. It is long and in depth, but it will help anyone wanting to express an emotion in their art. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCR/is_3_38/ai_n6249223/ I discussed the effects of color with an art dealer once, who said to me that when it comes to pure abstraction he always found it easier to sell a painting with a lot of red! If you have the time and the interest have a look at this article on colors and emotions. It is long and in depth, but it will help anyone wanting to express an emotion in their art.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCR/is_3_38/ai_n6249223/

I discussed the effects of color with an art dealer once, who said to me that when it comes to pure abstraction he always found it easier to sell a painting with a lot of red!

]]> By: Tony Bridge http://www.thistonybridge.com/2009/12/11/when-is-a-colour-photograph/comment-page-1#comment-23863 Tony Bridge Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:56:18 +0000 http://www.thistonybridge.com/?p=1284#comment-23863 Thank you for that, Janet. I agree. I felt much the same, not quite understanding what the fuss was about in regards to colour. After all, we all see in colour, do we not? Then I started to hang out with painters and, like you, my perceptions shifted...radically! When you realise that Matisse spent a whole career exploring black.... Thank you for that, Janet. I agree. I felt much the same, not quite understanding what the fuss was about in regards to colour. After all, we all see in colour, do we not?
Then I started to hang out with painters and, like you, my perceptions shifted…radically!
When you realise that Matisse spent a whole career exploring black….

]]> By: Janet http://www.thistonybridge.com/2009/12/11/when-is-a-colour-photograph/comment-page-1#comment-23862 Janet Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:25:26 +0000 http://www.thistonybridge.com/?p=1284#comment-23862 Not so long ago I enrolled in a painting course, titled Glorious Colour, I thought it would help me with understanding colour in my photography. As also coming from a background of black and white film photography, the apparent ease of capturing colour with digital left me somewhat confused over the complexity of colour photography. Haha! Although I certainly started to grow my appreciation and understanding of colour I also grew to love the painting process which due to the distraction left me more confused than ever regarding my photography! I agree colour can have an impact on our emotions and how we may perceive different colours depending on our emotional state at the time. I for one love to draw and paint with red and yellow and all sorts of combinations of this, I am not sure what this says about me but I am happy to say I have not stepped foot in a MacDonalds for a very long time. Perhaps it best I don't or I may never get out! Not so long ago I enrolled in a painting course, titled Glorious Colour, I thought it would help me with understanding colour in my photography. As also coming from a background of black and white film photography, the apparent ease of capturing colour with digital left me somewhat confused over the complexity of colour photography.
Haha! Although I certainly started to grow my appreciation and understanding of colour I also grew to love the painting process which due to the distraction left me more confused than ever regarding my photography!
I agree colour can have an impact on our emotions and how we may perceive different colours depending on our emotional state at the time. I for one love to draw and paint with red and yellow and all sorts of combinations of this, I am not sure what this says about me but I am happy to say I have not stepped foot in a MacDonalds for a very long time. Perhaps it best I don’t or I may never get out!

]]> By: doc http://www.thistonybridge.com/2009/12/11/when-is-a-colour-photograph/comment-page-1#comment-23842 doc Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:26:14 +0000 http://www.thistonybridge.com/?p=1284#comment-23842 As a digital photographer Tony you cant take anything but color photographs :-) As a digital photographer Tony you cant take anything but color photographs :-)

]]> By: eva http://www.thistonybridge.com/2009/12/11/when-is-a-colour-photograph/comment-page-1#comment-23835 eva Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:29:09 +0000 http://www.thistonybridge.com/?p=1284#comment-23835 Interesting interpretation about your McDonald "addiction". I personally think that they use the colour red to grab attention and to get people to take action. Red is so visible from the distance and you never going to miss it. Yellow is harmonizing colour with red so it's work well. I can take this a little farther.... I associate red with hell so - after a big Mac you are just saying "it wasn't me! That was a red devil, he made me do it!" ;) Interesting interpretation about your McDonald “addiction”.
I personally think that they use the colour red to grab attention and to get people to take action. Red is so visible from the distance and you never going to miss it. Yellow is harmonizing colour with red so it’s work well.
I can take this a little farther….
I associate red with hell so – after a big Mac you are just saying “it wasn’t me! That was a red devil, he made me do it!”
;)

]]> By: Tony Bridge http://www.thistonybridge.com/2009/12/11/when-is-a-colour-photograph/comment-page-1#comment-23818 Tony Bridge Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:19:33 +0000 http://www.thistonybridge.com/?p=1284#comment-23818 Hi Alan: This is a school not for everybody..it will veer heavily towards the esoteric....sort of Hawkins, Sagan, and Goldsmith.....will let you know.... Hi Alan:
This is a school not for everybody..it will veer heavily towards the esoteric….sort of Hawkins, Sagan, and Goldsmith…..will let you know….

]]> By: Alan D http://www.thistonybridge.com/2009/12/11/when-is-a-colour-photograph/comment-page-1#comment-23817 Alan D Fri, 11 Dec 2009 08:54:52 +0000 http://www.thistonybridge.com/?p=1284#comment-23817 Ah Tony, Do androids dream of sheep….. was my first thought on reading at the start of this essay your question “Do people dream in their favourite colour space?” My quote comes of course from a very interesting writer, but more importantly from my favourite film director, and one of my top favourite films (Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner ), and the more I thought about it I realised that this connection was more than a coincidence; Ridley Scott is a very visual director with great use of light & shade as well as colour, and the lighting and colouring in Bladerunner are most striking and have often been imitated since. I must go back and look at some of his other films, but I digress. You are of course right, that we need to learn more about colours and their meanings, so I will add that to my ever-growing list of things photographic to do over my summer break. (funnily enough I have been playing around with the colouring in some of my previous photographs recently) When did you say you were going to run your weekend school for navigators? Ah Tony,

Do androids dream of sheep…..
was my first thought on reading at the start of this essay your question “Do people dream in their favourite colour space?”

My quote comes of course from a very interesting writer, but more importantly from my favourite film director, and one of my top favourite films (Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner ), and the more I thought about it I realised that this connection was more than a coincidence; Ridley Scott is a very visual director with great use of light & shade as well as colour, and the lighting and colouring in Bladerunner are most striking and have often been imitated since. I must go back and look at some of his other films, but I digress.

You are of course right, that we need to learn more about colours and their meanings, so I will add that to my ever-growing list of things photographic to do over my summer break. (funnily enough I have been playing around with the colouring in some of my previous photographs recently)

When did you say you were going to run your weekend school for navigators?

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