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10/01/2005 03:30:50 PM · #51 |
Here is a definition from the Cambridge Advanced Dictionary:
complementary [Show phonetics]
adjective
useful or attractive together:
complementary colours/flavours/skills
Anything goes I guess.
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10/01/2005 03:51:44 PM · #52 |
Ok, this is really bugging me! I have two pictures, I really like the blue/yellow one over the blue/orange one, but a quick scan of the internet shows most sites indicating BLUE/ORANGE as complementary colors. Seeing as the first challenge also went this way, I will go BLUE/ORGANGE. (Bummer, as I really liked the other picture better.
Sites indicating BLUE/ORANGE are complementary:
Site 1
Site 2
Site 3
Site 4
Site 5
Sites indicating BLUE/YELLOW are complementary:
Site A
Yuck. Next time, Site Council - clarify what you want. :-) |
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10/01/2005 04:01:55 PM · #53 |
I am so confsued I wish I WAS colourblind!
I'm going to the coffee shop!!!!
P
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10/01/2005 09:39:44 PM · #54 |
Damn, I didn't read the posts for a day and I was thinking yellow/blue not yellow/purple. I've changed my entry 3 times, so I think what I have now is good and if somebody is going to diss me for not seeing it as their interpretation, then so be it. Isn't that the way it usually is anyway???
Good luck everybody!!!
Judy
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10/01/2005 10:12:17 PM · #55 |
| This may sound like a silly question but can the submission have more than 2 colors in it? I mean if the main subjects are complementary and then there is for example sky and clouds in the background would I be marked down for having more than the 2 complementary colors? |
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10/02/2005 01:20:16 AM · #56 |
So we using the transmissive or reflective colour wheel?
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10/02/2005 02:10:30 AM · #57 |
| Guess black and white's out of the question huh? |
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10/02/2005 02:40:07 AM · #58 |
Originally posted by suemack:
Guess black and white's out of the question huh? |
Officially B&W aren't even colors. They're tints and tones... :D
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10/02/2005 03:44:11 AM · #59 |
Originally posted by Kivet:
This may sound like a silly question but can the submission have more than 2 colors in it? I mean if the main subjects are complementary and then there is for example sky and clouds in the background would I be marked down for having more than the 2 complementary colors? |
As long as the complementary colors are "carrying" the composition, I don't think the presence of other colors is gonna be a problem. It's pretty hard to shoot a 2-color photograph outside of a studio environment...
R, |
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10/02/2005 03:48:43 AM · #60 |
Originally posted by macpapas:
Yuck. Next time, Site Council - clarify what you want. :-) |
Site Council has nothing to do with the challenge topics/wording, except in the mnost general sense. Drew and Langdon do that. For obvious reasons, actually; if SC were responsible for framing and selecting the challenges, they'd have a considerable conflict of interest since they also participate in them...
As for D&L, it's pretty clear they WANT ambiguity. It's all about giving people room to run their own course. We very rarely have precisely-defined challenges.
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10/02/2005 02:10:22 PM · #61 |
Thank you, I was having issues with that
K
Originally posted by bear_music:
Originally posted by Kivet:
This may sound like a silly question but can the submission have more than 2 colors in it? I mean if the main subjects are complementary and then there is for example sky and clouds in the background would I be marked down for having more than the 2 complementary colors? |
As long as the complementary colors are "carrying" the composition, I don't think the presence of other colors is gonna be a problem. It's pretty hard to shoot a 2-color photograph outside of a studio environment...
R, |
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10/03/2005 10:58:41 AM · #62 |
Originally posted by glad2badad:
Good point. I hadn't visited that yet. Normally I try to avoid looking at prior runs of a repeat challenge until I have an idea in mind.
Looks like an awful lot of Red/Green in our future! Perhaps a splash of Blue/Yellow. ;^) BTW, Red/Blue did grab the 11 and 12 spots.
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Message edited by author 2005-10-03 11:00:17. |
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10/03/2005 10:59:43 AM · #63 |
Actually, according to defination, Complementary colors consist of the three primary colors (Red, Yellow & Blue) and the the color the other two colors would make.
Exp:
RED and (Yellow+Blue = GREEN)
YELLOW and (Blue + Red = PURPLE)
and the last one would be
BLUE and (Red + Yellow = ORANGE)
That's the defination of complementary colors anyway. I'm however, sure there will be a lot that don't follow the difination.
Originally posted by glad2badad:
Originally posted by sfalice:
...Getting out my colorful crystal ball, I foresee a large number of 1s and 10s coming your way... |
Ok - I'm heading out for a cup of Coffee! |
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10/03/2005 11:28:22 AM · #64 |
Hate to be a stickler here but can we call the colors by their proper names please...
RED is complimentary to CYAN
GREEN is complimentary to MAGENTA
BLUE is complimentary to YELLOW
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