When I was in art school we used to talk about warm and cool colours. I always preferred the warm ones and for many years I’ve done my best to remove the cooler tones from my images. However, it seems I haven’t always done it.
This week John from Journeys with Johnbo has set us the challenge of cool colours. In his post he has described it in many ways, but has said that each of us can choose our own interpretation for it.
So mine, speaking from the art school perspective I decided to go with half the colour wheel. So that would be green, blues and purples. However, the greens and purple would have more blue in them than yellow or red. I have tried to stay away from images that have any warm colours in them at all. So for me that meant no yellows or reds. If those colours are in the images they are pale and not significant, or so I hope.
I think you can tell the dominant colour here is blue. That colour is the main cool colour and I think the colour that most of us think of when we think cool.
I have put together a selection of my cool colours in a gallery for you.
I included a couple of infrared images that I had put a blue tone over as well.
On the conversation about infrared photography I finally found out that my Nikon Infrared camera cannot be fixed. However, I will have the Fujifilm X-T3 converted to it, so I will have another one soon, I hope.
Interesting challenge and I want to thank John for being our host this week. Please go and take a look at John’s post, the link is at the beginning of this post.
You can also see what everyone else has done by going to the reader and looking up the tag lens-artists.
Maybe you would like to participate this week, it is a great challenge to do. To find out how to join the Lens-Artists Challenge, click here for more info.
Thanks for sharing! The photos of the ocean and Melbourne are truly magical!
Thank you Phil.
Oh, my – I always find your galleries wonderful and each picture a masterpiece. This time I am lost in your infrared. And trees are a great love of mine too.
Thank you Ann-Christine, that is great to hear aboutthe infrared, I just got a camera converted so I am looking forward to doing more.
Beautiful! Those trees are other-worldly 😀.
Thank you PR.
Love those infrared images, they are other-worldly.
Thank you Dawn, I can’t wait to be doing more.
Great great photos, artfully done, as always. Superb.
Thank you John.
Love your first one, Leanne. A classic!
That’s great Sofia, thank you.
Beautiful gallery!!
Thank you Nora.
Cool images in every sense!
Thank you Margaret.
For someone who prefers the warmer shades for photography you have a great selection of cool ones here. I especially love the infrared trees 🙂
Thank you Sarah, sometimes you just have to love blues.
Such a beautiful gallery you created for the challenge, Leanne. I liked all photos and, especially, the docklands reflection and long exposure on the beach. Mesmerizing!
Thank you Egidio, there have been lots of great posts this week. That’s great to hear.
Wonderful as always Leanne – I especially loved the two images of trees.
Thank you so much Tina, I think they are popular those ones.
Great cools Leanne! I loved the building images.
Thank you Anne, you know how much I love buildings.
A great selection. I especially like the infrared trees!
Thank you, I think I will have to do more of those.
Beautiful photography showcasing the cute interrelationship between humanity and Gods’ creativity. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you.
A stunning display, Leanne! I very much like your take on the infrared ones. Have you tried setting up an infrared film simulation in your Fuji camera? It works quite well, I think.
Thank you Dina, that is great, I do love infrared. No, I haven’t, I have tend to stay away from that and just stuck with the infrared camera. I found today that the Nikon can be fixed, but I have also got a Fujifilm converted, so I don’t know what to do now.
A friend of mine has a Nikon he converted to IR. He’s got some fascinating images. Just curious what happened with your Nikon and if you used it for IR much before it broke.
My Nikon just stopped working, though, I was told today they were able to fix it, so not sure what happened. I did use it a bit, and I loved it, but I think when I get it back I might sell it, I will have the Fujifilm one for IR and that will be enough for me. Thank you John.
I’m with you, black and white’s can be awesome but I love color. 🙂
Yeah, I agree, I like some colour, thank you.
Thanks for sharing this idea Anita
You’re welcome.