This project is about colour themes - whether colour is a deliberate feature within a composition or incidental. I had to explore three aspects:
- Capturing a scene with the largest number of greens
- Making an image with the largest range of colour constrast, eg blue to orange
- Finding an image with one strong isolated colour against a contrasting background.
First the shot with greens. This one was taken at Cliveden in Buckinghamshire looking out towards Cookham over the River Thames(not in view):
Cookham from Cliveden Reach, Buckinghamshire UK
The spring growth of the deciduous trees combines with the darker greens of the evergreens to provide a great array of green. The range is expanded yet further by the desaturation of the more distant colours (agreed they are not different hues but they are lighter in tone).
For the second part I have included two images taken on my recent trip to Lanzarote. The first is another image captured at Timanfaya. In this shot I contrast the blue sky with the orange of the slopes of the volcano. The second was taken from the highest point of Lanzarote on Mirador del Rio. It shows the turquoise blue of the sea contrasted by the orange/yellow of the Island of Graciola. A boat heading across the water provides context and scale.
Timanfaya, Lanzarote Canary Islands
Graciola from Mirador del Rio, Lanzarote Canary Islands
I found it much easier to find this type of colour contrast on Lanzarote than back in the UK. Strong colours in the UK tend to be green for grass/foliage, blue for sea and sky and yellow for fields of crops/rapeseed etc. There are few bright reds, orange or violet hues other than in small elements of the landscape such as flowers etc. I was reasonably happy with these two images although it would have been better had the colour of the land in the second image had been stronger.
The final task of isolating one strong colour against a contrasting background I found hard. I have included an image taken in the wine growing area of Lanzarote, La Geria. Whilst I am happy with the image itself, I am not sure it properly meets the brief. The yellowish green vines contrast with the reddish brown soil and walls. The colours of yellow and red are however very desaturated. I think I will need to complete another image when I find an opportunity to improve on this.
La Geria, Lanzarote Canary Islands
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