fandomhigh | Photography Basics: Color - Monday, Second Period [06/17].

"Hey, everyone!" Feeling pretty good and still kind of riding that Dad's Day high, Prompto couldn't help meeting the class with a pleased grin that week. "Welcome back. No need to waste too much time explaining the deal today, since it's the same as all the other days. Let's see what you've got for your blue photos, and then we'll dive into our last colors for the class: indigo and violet! Now, you might be thinking, 'but Prompto! Those are two different colors!' and technically you'd be right, but, while earlier in the specturm, the distinctions between the colors are more dramatic, when you get to this end? Not so much. There's a lot of overlap between darker blues and indigo, and, of course, indigo also is similiar to a lot of darker purples. I actually looked up, too, why they were different on the spectrum when they're so similiar, just to make sure I wasn't committing some criminal offense by mushing them together, and you know what? Honestly? It sounds like they just really wanted to do seven colors because seven was considered a magical number back then, and so, behold! Indigo and violet instead of just an umbrella purple.

"We're going to just stick with purple and explore the range of both," he informed them, "but first? We've got some stuff to...blue..."

He hit them with a broad grin. Just try and stop him from the bad puns!

"...by looking at your pictures from last week. Who's up first this time??"

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Purple!....ish?

Stewart

Steve Rogers

Stark

Time to show off how you made blue work for you! Bonus points for shots that aren't just sky or water!

Did it count that Steve had deleted a bunch of photos Tony had taken of his blue butt in his Cap uniform?

After that it was pretty much sky photos, sorry.

And, of course, after everyone had shown off their blue pictures, it was time to dive into the last two colors on the spectrum, indigo and violet, close enough to each other for the purposes of their class that Prompto was going to combine them both into purple, for ease and not being an annoying pedant. That wasn't his style.

And after going over some of the moods and effects usually garnered through purple photography, there were tons of examples of purple being achieved through lighting, both natural as with Norbert Rosing's Fir Trees or artificially like in some of Liam Wong's Tokyo street photography. Of course, flowers made sense, from both a distance, as in Gerd Ludwig's Lavender Fields, and up close, like with Stacey Gold's Purple Crocuses. Sam Abell's Tasmanian Bridge is a personal favorite of Prompto's because of the architecture, but your purple could feature all sort of other sources, like this little girl's clothing in this Lisa Kristine portrait, or the coloring on the hands in Réhahn's aptly titled Purpe Hands.

This entire set from Mike McGee, using a combination of equipment, lenses, and lighting are just all too good to have picked just one to feature,

And you know what? If Ignis and Liliana didn't want a little bit of a sneaky candid of them in a little private moment of trying their best not to be too amused with each other somewhere, then they should be a little better about not coordinating their outfits so much to a color scheme!

He's there! Feelings strangely like he could really go for a grape soda right about now.

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