Work Diary - Colour

Work Diary

Evaluation

In Thursday's photography session when I went out around the college premises to shoot 'colour', I found the project to be a bit of an adventure. I was able to go around the college by myself and find objects that contained colour, and because this was the hardest topic (as there wasn't much colour) I was able to collect a variety of photographs as I covered a lot of ground on my own. The more areas you visit, the more images you begin to collect. Lots of colour was found inside of certain buildings aswell, not just outside. The difficult part of shooting colour is that your options are very limited on the college grounds because most of it is brick work, which is brown. Every time I stumbled across something colourful I most certainly didn't let it slip. My favourite photograph from Thursday's session was the one below.

The reason as to why I believe this was one of my best photos is because there is a large assortment of colours in this photograph. It's a picture of wires, which I found behind a skip (not very attractive, but a good place for photographs). It was the most colourful photo that I took and it also fills the whole frame, so visually it just looks like a tangled mess of bright squiggles. The wires being a range of colours means that this picture looks a lot more appealing than it would do if it were to consist of just a couple of different colours.

I also had another photograph of mine that I really liked the look of.

This is the 'O' found on the post titled 'O-Zone' in college. In my opinion, the circle of colours aren't so bright that they hurt your eyes looking at the image for too long. The colours are subtle and calm, and they work really well together. The white stands out the most on the deep pink background which spreads a fresh feel across the whole photograph. The colour within the image stands out and looks fun. 

Progression

Seen as though colour is one of my most favourite topics when it comes to creativity, it is a topic that I would most likely decide to develop if I had the chance. I believe colour has the ability to bring something to life. Therefore, if I were to shoot for colour again, I would try and be imaginative and perhaps use the image of the female in my definition post with the mixture of colours around her eyes as inspiration, as that brought her eyes to life. So I'd link my idea of 'colour bringing something to life' with my photographs of facial features being brought to life, through colour. I may also take some black and white pictures that include a focal point of colour like the image I included in my image bank. I suspect I would come up with many ideas along the way that would thoroughly cover the topic 'colour'. A few images that inspire me for this project are beneath.

This photograph is a mixture of the ideas I had in my head. It's a black and white photo with a focal point of colour, mixed with bright make up on the face.