The function of color is equivalent to a color filter. What principle does it use?

Color plays an important role in the audience's feelings about the things displayed in the photo screen. Color affects people's mood to a great extent, and the emotional appeal formed by color also affects the expression of the content of the work.

The role of color in photographic composition

Jumped out of black and white, when photography entered the color age, photography composition no longer simply considered lines and light. As a main composition factor, color is paid more and more attention by photographers.

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First of all, a work, to be fascinating, often needs an interesting center. However, on many occasions, the establishment of this interesting center is not easy. However, if colors are skillfully used, such as adding a colored object to a relatively simple scene (the best objects are red, yellow, orange, etc. ), bright and bright color points can be the interesting center of photos and attract people's attention effectively.

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Color can not only give the subject eye-catching features, but also create depth on the plane photo screen.

Yellow, red and orange have the characteristics of protruding forward.

Green, blue and gray tend to shrink.

The coexistence of different colors can emphasize each other, and the greater the brightness difference between the two colors, the more obvious the effect.

Therefore, in the process of photography conception, the effect of three-dimensional space can be successfully displayed on the plane of two-dimensional space by reasonably arranging the existence of color.

Different colors bring different depths.

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The tones formed by colors are very emotional.

Colors such as red, orange and yellow remind people of fire and the sun, so they are called "warm colors". It can give people a positive, energetic and warm feeling.

Blue and green are associated with cold and dusk, and they are called "cool colors", which give people a cold, quiet and desolate feeling.

The higher the saturation of warm color, the more obvious its "warm" characteristics; The higher the brightness of cool color, the more obvious its "cold" characteristics.

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In addition to the sense of warmth and coldness, color also has a sense of weight.

Light colors give people a light and elegant feeling.

Dark colors give people a sense of heaviness and security.

Describing an object by color, light color has low density and outward diffusion, which makes people feel that its weight is very light.

Dark color has a high density, which gives people a sense of cohesion and makes people feel that its weight is very heavy.

Mastering this characteristic of color often plays a beneficial role in balancing picture composition.

The darker the color, the heavier the picture will be.

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Objects of the same size will give viewers a different sense of area if the surface colors are different.

Light areas will feel larger than dark areas.

This phenomenon of expansion and contraction is also related to the cold and warm color. Warm color belongs to expansion color, and cool color belongs to contraction color.

The light color is prominent, which will give people the illusion of a large area.

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Color gives people another feeling that it is gorgeous and elegant. This feeling plays a great role in the exposition of the theme and the expression of the content of the work. Generally speaking,

Gorgeous and dynamic, happy feeling is closely related.

Simple elegance is closely related to static and depressed feelings.

In the picture, whether the color is gorgeous or elegant depends on the saturation and lightness of the color. Among them, brightness is particularly critical. No matter what color, when the brightness is high, even if the saturation is low, it can give people a gorgeous feeling.

If the color in the picture is monochrome, the saturation is high and the color is gorgeous.

Low saturation gives people a feeling of elegance.

If it is mixed color, the beauty and elegance depend on the characteristics of each monochrome in the mixed color and the contrast effect in all aspects of mixed color.

Highly saturated colors bring a sense of movement and liveliness.

Low saturation color brings deep and simple elegance.

The Symbolic Meaning of Common Colors

yellow

Yellow is the brightest color. Compared with dark tones, yellow is a cheerful and bright color. As the color of the sun, yellow has obvious effect. Yellow, orange and red together are interesting, happy, cheerful and extroverted tones. Yellow, blue and pink are friendly colors together.

Because it comes from the sun, yellow also has its fiery side. Yellow is called gold when it describes beautiful and valuable things. Yellow, gold and brilliance are similar in language. Because it is similar to gold, yellow has become a color representing wealth and luxury. Reflected in photography, if yellow is the main color, the whole work will give people a lively and warm feeling.

blue

Blue is a symbol of eternity, desire and fantasy, and occasionally represents utopia and unreachable ideals.

Symbolically, cool blue is a color that people stay away from. It represents ruthlessness, arrogance and hardness. Blue represents noble quality. It is considered to be the deepest and most indescribable color among all colors, and it is also the most ethereal color.

Blue is so pure that it is usually associated with ocean, sky, water and universe. Pure blue shows a kind of beauty, calmness, reason, tranquility and vastness. Because of the cool nature of blue, photos based on blue are usually used to express a rational and accurate thing.

red

Red is the original color. The symbolic meaning of red is influenced by two basic experiences: red is blood and red is fire. Red has become the dominant color in all positive life emotions, giving people a warm and approachable feeling. It means reality, within reach.

Photos with a red tone usually give people a feeling of celebration and joy. But in the west, there are also many photographers who use red as the main color of their works describing war and suffering. The differences between eastern and western cultural concepts have a great influence on the use of red.

green

Green is the color of plants and a symbol of life. Green is the color of spring, and its meaning is transformed into a symbol of prosperity. The symbol of hope, the color of youth.

Green is the middle color between yellow and blue. If there is more yellow or blue in green, its performance characteristics will change. Photos based on green often give people a fresh and elegant feeling, which is very common in landscapes and portraits of girls.

Play with colors

There are tens of millions of different colors in the world. As a qualified photographer, what we should learn is to find a reasonable configuration from this complicated color and record it. As the knowledge that a photographer must master, color should be good at observation and practice, and practice and accumulate experience in practice. As long as you persevere, I believe that these color knowledge will definitely add a touch of brilliance to your work.