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Practicing color composition

Practicing color composition

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Practicing color composition

You've probably spent the bulk of your photographic life working in color, but of course I've had you shooting in black and white. So now, I think it's time for you to go back to color and start practicing some of this compositional vocabulary that we've been working with. As I said before, it's for the most part exactly like what you've been doing in black and white. There are just these extra considerations that you need to weigh when you're setting up your shot. Because of that, why don't you start simply, start with images that are still mostly about tone, interesting plays of light and that kind of thing, but that maybe have a color accent. One little bit of color weight that you can start playing with and from there go more complex. A very nice place to start is working with portraits because you know exactly what color values you are going to have to work with and you can try to find situations that balance those out. As I said, color is a long course in itself. We are just…

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