Colour: exercise 3 - colour relationships.

Here I'm beginning to gather images for the 'colour relationships exercise. I'm still learning to really dig down into the language of the assignment, as opposed to taking pictures in an 'assumed' manner. I guess it's an acquired taste - doing exactly what's required and not just shooting from the hip. I know this sometimes when I'm out and about with a camera and find myself in the zone of possibility... But then again, I believe that the learning here is a constant process and as long as I'm always looking and thinking and seeing potential pictures - that's the main point!

Red and green dominance: 

well, not really but I just like the expressions of my daughter and grandson and the colours gave men ab excuse to include this shot.

Blue and orange dominance: 

mostly blue but it was a lovely moment in a great day's ending. 

Yellow and green dominance: these fields are all around - they have to be photographed!

Colour: exercise 2 - primary and secondary colours

I know there's more detail and versions to add here, but I'm just putting up the basic framework for this work on 'colour'.

Black and white: the colour of a storm

A storm passed over our house the other evening. Thanks to a call from my daughter I managed to dash outside and grab some images of the angry beast that was raging in the skies above us. Staring up for longer than usual, the primal power became more dramatic moment by scary moment. 

I tried to get clever by using iPhoto's range effects - but nature had a message for me: sometimes just let things be the way they are meant to be... In this case, leave the photographs alone, after some basic cropping. So here they are...