Colour Wheel

Many of us sees colour and snap away, some never realised harmonous colour or contrasting colour are used to create certain results. It can be strong, soft, sad, joy. I am as confused as everybody who has been taking pictures in colour until I read a book on painting which mentioned different uses of colour, how similar hue can be group together or contrasting colour can use to create impact.

First of all, the colour wheel, all visual art lesson will teach about this colour wheel one way or the other.

From this chart, we can almost immediately identify the colour which we should try to group together to create an harmonous feeling. e.g. blue, green,yellow.

or red, orange and yellow

However, to have impact using colour, try to pick 2 colours which are opposite each other on the colour wheel.

e.g Red and green , the colour of nature, too many example, so no need to post

or Orange and blue

Finally, purple and yellow

I have to post this despite the post's length. The picture was taken with the sharpest len in the world, of course I must use the soften skin tone function in aperture software to get such pleasing result. Purple and yellow... Right today is about colour wheel!

We must weed out non related colours to get colour, less is more. As always is the case!