How to express cold and warm colors in landscape photography

Lead: Landscape photography has always been one of the favorite subjects for players to learn photography. Like color, it is the most basic premise of landscape. Coupled with the changes of the four seasons, the colors presented in each season are not the same. How to use it? Watch it together.

Three forms of warm colors

The so-called warm color can give people a warm, warm and comfortable feeling. Main colors refer to red, orange, yellow and their hues. Warm colors symbolize the sun, flame, etc. , giving people a positive, enthusiastic, active and unrestrained feeling. Define the overall trend of picture color from hue, lightness, cold and warm, purity and so on. Tone changes are rich and varied, and so are warm tones. Let's analyze the reasons for the formation of warm colors.

Aperture F7. 1, speed 1/200s, focal length 38mm, ISO 200. Autumn comes, the leaves turn yellow, the whole color is yellow, and the warm color seems to be there.

1. Influence of warm light source:

When shooting landscape photography, the light formed by sunrise and sunset is warm, and under the cover of warm light sources, the photographed landscape often presents warm colors.

2. The inherent color is warm:

The inherent color of an object also plays an important role in hue. In normal light, the primary colors of the subject are warm colors, or most of them are warm colors, so the works taken must be warm colors.

3. The use of warm filter:

Using warm color filters to shoot landscape works will show warm colors.

Three forms of cool tone

Cool colors give people a feeling of quiet, peaceful, cool and cold. The main colors are blue, green and black. It symbolizes the blue sky, the sea, forests, glaciers and so on. The cool tone is formed as follows.

Aperture F8, speed 1/200s, focal length 32mm, ISO 100. Using cool color filter, it is especially deep and quiet when shooting blue sky and clear water.

1. Direct image of light source:

In landscape photography, if the landscape is shrouded in veil mist, under the pale blue moonlight or in the silvery white world in winter, these landscapes are called cool works.

2. The use of inherent color:

Inherent color is the most basic factor to determine hue. In winter, leaves fall and grass withers, showing a grayish brown tone; The deep blue sea under the blue sky and white clouds is a cool scenery. It is these dominant cool colors that determine the tone of the picture.

3. The role of the cold color filter:

When shooting a suitable landscape work, use a cool color filter to make the picture look cool.

Application of contrast color

In the photographic picture, in order to make the picture have strong visual power and contrast effect, clever use of color contrast is a good way to create the best visual effect. According to the color circle, we divide color contrast into weak contrast and strong contrast. The color of the adjacent area on the color ring is called weak contrast color; The opposite color on the color circle is called strong contrast color.

For example, the contrast between blue and yellow is a strong contrast; For another example, red and green, blue and green in the three primary colors are also in sharp contrast. The use of contrasting colors can produce dramatic effects, attract our eyes and stimulate our visual nerves. For any hue, the brighter the color, the higher the saturation and the stronger the contrast.

Aperture F 16, speed 1/20s, focal length 169mm, ISO 400. The work is in Qiuba. According to human vision, it takes cool color as the background and warm color as the foreground. Cool color is a distant color, which always reminds people of the sky, ocean and emptiness. Warm colors are approaching colors, as if to jump out of the picture. The overall picture has a complete visual effect.