Colours into Tones in Black and White

This exercise was about making a still life image and turning it in to a black and white image but also using coloured filters to give us the understanding, putting colour to use in black and white images can give us a more powerful control, and to allow us to emphasis certain objects in a scene and suppress others.

So it is make a still life up take an image of it and then make 5 more with the use of Photoshop CS6 using the adjustments menu clicking black and white and then adding the filters that were needed for each one.

So I started off by finding a few objects that were of the 6 colours of the colour circle or as best I could, then set my scene up with the violet pony having lunch which was an orange, Sweetcorn, Cucumber and a strawberry yogurt. I then placed a mid gray card next to the set up so as to show it staying the same through the images.

This image is my original image and as it can be seen 1 little pony teddy having lunch in a big blue field.

So now that I have my image I shall now put it through Photoshop to convert to black and white.

With this image in black and white, you can see all is change it is quite a drab feeling it is like an image of “Eeyore” from the “Winnie the pooh” books all depressive and lonely.

With this image I used the red filter setting on the black and white conversion and as you can see it effected the image by whitening  out the red strawberry the orange and the sweetcorn and the gray card has stayed as a mid gray, the blue background has also become quite noisy.

Now with this image I used a yellow filter and noticed that i got almost the same sort of effects as i did with the red filter the main difference was that the background was smoother with thew yellow filter than with the red filter.

This image has a green filter applied to it and the effect it had was to give a nice colour to the cucumber and the back ground is not as noisy as the images before. The strawberry, orange and corn are a little bit lighter than the plain black and white image but I feel that the orange and the strawberry look better in this image and the gray card is still mid gray.

This image has the blue filter added and as it can be seen the changes are very noticeable. the background has gone to a light gray the cucumber, orange, corn and the strawberry have become very dark as well as the pony has become a little bit darker as well as the gray card has become a little darker.

So from doing this exercise it is possible to see how adding  filters when converting an image to a black and white image it is possible to highlight objects in the image but also by adjusting the level of  the colour filter added we can adjust the tone of the image so as to add feeling to an image.

Colour Relationships

I found this topic quite difficult but hopefully I got the right idea in the end.

so after long debate with myself thinking right so this is how it should be taking some images then reading about color relationships from the book  “THE PHOTOGRAPHERS EYE’ by Micheal Freeman, I feel as if i did ok .

I also wanted to try and make sure it was not the same sort of images that I felt would be used most commonly like flowers as these would give a natural color and could be placed to give the right color combinations. So here a couple of the combinations.

Here we have Red and Green combination which is split to give an even amount of red to green.

Then we have.

This shot of Blue and Orange was taken at the annual town fair from a side stall for the kids to catch a floating ball and win a prize, this took around 7 shots to get this as the balls kept moving and flying in to the air.

Now to produce some images that appeal to me and that I feel works and i will tell you why.

This image I love you have the blue sky with the green wheat and then there is the orange tops to the wheat. This image if going by the phrase i was taught when working with carpets this should not be acceptable as the phrase said blue and green should never be seen. But it works when you look at a lot of landscape images the main colors are blue and green and by having that little bit of orange in the image it helps in tying the image together. With this combination you get the feeling of peace, relaxed and all at ease.

With this image you have mainly the green with just a touch of red and yellow so color proportions are out the window but for me I feel that this does work with the green moss and leaves the red roses and then the small little yellow flowers, they seem to combine and balance the image.

This image was a night image on a 1 second shutter speed being handheld to give the angle i was after and thankfully everyone must have been stood still or were just moving very slowly. I love this image so much because of all the color that is in this image, there is Reds, Greens, Blues, Violets, Yellows, Oranges, Grays, Blacks and Whites. Also there is the fact that there is movement and stillness in the image too. I think that because of all of these aspects it gives balance to what should be an imbalanced image with so much going on.

This image I felt took the color proportions of blue and orange and turned them around and as can be seen it works, I would say that it is the rows of seating that go all the way down lining up with the stain glass window at the end that helps to add the balance to the image from the imbalance of the colors.

Sorry to all!

This is just a little message to say sorry as I have now fallen behind a bit and need to catch up.
I would like to say thank you to the insurance company its great to have a camera back.
So now to concentrate and get this topic done.