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05/08/2006 04:53:41 PM · #1
If you could only photograph subjects of one color (different shades okay), what would that be and why?

My question isn't as thought provoking as American Horse's are, but I'd love to hear what people would say.

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Question variation 1: What color (different subjects) would you choose?
Question variation 2: What single-color subject would you choose?

Message edited by author 2006-05-08 17:33:48.
05/08/2006 05:20:56 PM · #2
do you mean what colors or what subjects?
05/08/2006 05:27:52 PM · #3
If you mean I'd have to limit my palette to a single color, that would be blue, with green a close second. Blue because it's a powerful, dominant, soothing color that, when muted works very well in the monocromatic schema and, anyway, I do a lot of landscapes and can just shoot 'em in tungsten mode and I got blue up the wazoo :-)

But green's a very complex, lovely color, the natural variations of which all respond differently to hue/saturation tweaking in the green, yellow, cyan, and sometimes even the red channels, so you can do some wonderfully subtle things with foliage.

If you're asking what single-color subjects I'd most like to work with, that would be green, growing things: leaves, vegetables, like that.

Ask me what's the one subject I'd shoot the rest of my life if I could only shoot the one subject, that would be sunrises/sunsets :-)

R.
05/08/2006 05:32:03 PM · #4
Originally posted by blazingmoonlight:

do you mean what colors or what subjects?


Originally I meant what colors, but Bear_Music's response makes me interested in both!

Sorry for the confusion.
05/08/2006 06:01:49 PM · #5
b + w, then dark cyan.
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