COLOR

What changes when a photograph is in color?

How does color connect us to life?
What do you now have to
consider when
photographing in color?

How does the way our eye

sees color affect a photograph?
How does color affect things like mood,
meaning, perception?

Choose a color. Thinking about a variety of subject matter, environments,

times of day, levels of abstraction as you shoot a roll of at least 24
images focusing on that color. Make sure to explore the following:

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Shoot your color isolated in the frame

Shoot your color filling the frame

Shoot your color against its opposite

Shoot your color using the correct white balance setting

Shoot your color using the opposite (in terms of warm and cool) white balance setting

Make your color feel warm

Make your color feel cold

Photograph a person where the light is closest to your color (use a specific time of day
to execute this)

9. Photograph a person where the light is furthest from your color (use a specific time of
day to execute this):

If you are using an iPhone, download the app Camera+, it allows for
some manual control over focus, exposure, and white balance.

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Make sure you have a way to get the photos off of your camera without
needing to email them - you can use a removable memory card or link
your phone to Dropbox for automatic downloading.

the focal point becomes a single color

where a single color dominates the photo

What will we do with these photos?

Before

EDIT

After

EXPERIMENT