Wednesday, 20 January 2010

Visual Language 10/11/09

Looking at how colours work together



Photographing our objects on coloured papers showed us how important it was to experiment with coloured backgrounds as they could change the appearance of the object dramatically. Contrasting colours made the object 'pop' stand out where as similar hues made the objects appear more subtle. The colours could also make the objects appear a different hue, eg. placing a green object on yellow made the green appear more yellow than if it were to be placed on a blue background.

The objects appear more saturated colour in the top image, when placed on the opposite colour they stand out more but appear a different hue

The chip on the right appears more saturated colour and has more warmth to it, the white background on the left appears to drain the object of its colour

We can see how the red stand out more on the black background, it pushes the colour forward

When the bottle top moves onto the yellow side its hue appears more yellow and it appears to tint the yellow background to a green-ish yellow, where as when it is on the blue side the bottle top appears a blue-ish green.

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