EX113 Abstracting Colour - Intentional Colour Shifts and False Colours

It is time to give you a bit more leeway with your work and some more time to really work on a series.

So with this exercise you have three weeks to work on it.

We had such a great success with false colour this week. It seems it challenges us with our perceptions of what a photograph should look like. For some of us the colour shifts were confronting, and felt so strange.

Yet, some wowed us, and took us to imaginary worlds.

We discovered there were many ways of altering the colours. By simply changing the colour temperature many were able to introduce interesting colour shifts.

Shooting through coloured transparent materials, such as cellophane or glass gave bigger shifts in colour. While just altering the colour temperature gave the images a colour cast throughout the whole image. When you shoot through a piece of coloured glass you are changing the colours of some of the colours and not others. When you only change the colour temperature you are shifting all of your colours in the photograph towards the bias you are giving it.

We don’t mind at all which way you shift your colours. In fact there are so many ways of shifting and changing colours in software that you might like to explore.

So for the next few weeks please work on a little project about colour. Abstracting the colour away from what it looks like, and experimenting with colour shifts, and false colours.

In the presentation about False Colours I will show you ways that you can play with them in software, as opposed to playing with them in your camera.

You are free to use which ever techniques you like. Just work on a series that shows you can bring them together.

Post five photographs in the post. Yes, five, and only five. If you wish to lay them out in a lovely layout, you can include a sixth that shows the layout. But please don’t just include the lovely layout, we really want to zoom into each one when we do the discussion.

The photographs I am including are to demonstrate colour shifts. They are not a completed set of photographs that work as a series.

We will discuss this in class on the 8th June 2021

Post your photographs in the forum here. https://lensclub.discussion.community/post/ex113-abstracting-colour-intentional-colour-shifts-and-false-colours-11677860?pid=1325559524#post1325559524