How to use color to enhance the style of photos

Colorful

Colorful picture style refers to the picture is composed of a variety of colors. This kind of picture is rich in color, so it has a strong visual impact and is easy to meet the requirements of the public in terms of aesthetics. When shooting this kind of scene, it should be noted that in order to avoid the messy feeling caused by numerous colors, there should be a major tonal tendency or a certain color occupies an absolute position in the area.

Pure and fresh quietly elegant

In the color that fastens in same color the color with taller lightness often looks to give a person pure and fresh, quietly elegant sense, the color of this kind of style is used at expressing portrait, still life, indoor household normally, also can behave scenery, if argent beach, white snow scene, clean mist scene. When shooting, the photographer can increase the brightness of the picture and reduce the saturation of the color by appropriately increasing the exposure compensation of 1-2 blocks, so as to obtain the picture with fresh and elegant color.

Black and white and lasting appeal

Whether it is a good black and white or black and white portrait photography, scenery photography can let viewers get rid of the fetter colors, solemnly explore the abstract nature of the world, it is because the black and white photos of this kind of unique artistic conception and concise expression, make the black and white photos in color photography is popular today still be fond of by many photographers.

It should be noted that, due to the current digital photo processing technology is very advanced, so black and white digital photos are usually taken in color mode first, and then processed by post-modification techniques, in this respect can refer to the digital photo processing books.

In addition, the need to pay attention to all of the landscape, portrait subject matter is not suitable for being filmed or processing become black and white photos, especially to like a Chinese ink and wash effect of black and white photos, should be those who have a large cloud or snow scenes, only in this way can be according to the theory of ink meter white when the black and white, have the lasting appeal of ink and black and white photography.

Simple colors

The use of a single color, that is, little or no other color in the picture, suitable for a certain color rendering of the overall atmosphere, and the main performance of the picture content, foil artistic conception of the theme.

The application of a single color makes the picture become concise and pure. The overall atmosphere of the picture is defined by a monochrome color. Then, the picture will be very prominent if it is combined with the simple composition content. To shoot this kind of picture, usually before sunrise or after sunset, through the exposure compensation principle of "white plus black minus", the color in the shot scene should be processed deeper and purer.

Complementary colors that complement each other

Complementary color is to point to in the color wheel into 150 ~ 180 angle of two kinds of color. Its characteristic has intense contrast between each other; accordingly, when complementary color appears in the picture, you can form intense foil effect to make the main body become more outstanding.

Harmonious use of color

Adjacent colors are two colors that are adjacent to each other in the color wheel. The use of adjacent colors is very common in photographic creation, which can make the picture achieve the effect of unity, coordination, softness and simple elegance. However, due to the lack of visual contrast, the visual impact is often not very strong, which is suitable for the expression of some soft objects.