Here's what I think is going to happen. The top images for this challenge aren't necessarily going to have true complementary colors - they are going to be interesting images with colors that have good contrast against each other. So, to answer your question, I think an interesting, fun photo with blue and red would do quite well.
Thanks for the color wheel link. Quite helpful. ;^)
Originally posted by KarenNfld:
Do they have to be true complementary colours according to the colour wheel:
Here's what I think is going to happen. The top images for this challenge aren't necessarily going to have true complementary colors - they are going to be interesting images with colors that have good contrast against each other. So, to answer your question, I think an interesting, fun photo with blue and red would do quite well.
I agree with this 100%... there are many people who have no concept of the color wheel or who will interpret the term "complimentary colors" loosely:)
In the former challenge, the description listed which colors were complimentary. I expect a number of people may interpret it as colors that complement each other (in a look nice together sort of way) without being given that info.
Compl"E"mentary colors are direct opposites on the color wheel...blue and red are not compl"E"mentary colors but analogous colors...color theory can be amazingly complex but a whole lot of fun.
( Edit: I stand corrected...I know color but never said I was a good speller : P )
There are, actually, two color wheels.
The first posted link in this thread takes you to the color wheel that refers to light as seen in the spectrum and as it affects mediums such as film and digital chips. The last example before my post takes you to a color wheel that would be used for paint and other reflective mediums-it's the one we're taught in grade school.
Also, it is compl-E-mentary color--not compl-I-mentary color.
(Complimentary colors would be ones that exchange nicities....
Red: "My that's a fine shade of teal."
Blue: "Why thank you, Red, you're looking very rosy yourself!")
Ok this is a cool site I found while trying to explain how if you look at a color for a long time it's opposite color will show up around the edge and if you look at a white object afterwards you will see this opposite color. This is really neat. Read the directions first.
There are at least three color wheels:
1. RGB, the additive colors (colors of light)
2. CMY, (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) the subtractive colors (used for printing) (seems to have the same distribution as RGB, but swaps the secondary colors for the primary ones.)
3. RYB, traditional color wheel (the previous complementary colors challenge used this wheel)
So can anyone shed more light on this? Which color wheel do we humans percieve? That is, in general photography (not the contest) should we use the complements
RGB: Red-Cyan, Green-Purple, Blue-Yellow or
RYB: Red-Green, Yellow-Purple, Blue-Orange
Just to throw a monkey-wrench into things, //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_perception claims that "In most Old World primates there are three types of color receptors, known as cone cells, that are maximally receptive to short, medium, and long wavelengths of light (known as S-, M-, and L-cones and roughly corresponding to blue, green, and yellow), allowing for trichromatic color vision." and lumps humans in with Old World primates.
Ok this is a cool site I found while trying to explain how if you look at a color for a long time it's opposite color will show up around the edge and if you look at a white object afterwards you will see this opposite color. This is really neat. Read the directions first.
There are at least three color wheels:
1. RGB, the additive colors (colors of light)
2. CMY, (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow) the subtractive colors (used for printing) (seems to have the same distribution as RGB, but swaps the secondary colors for the primary ones.)
3. RYB, traditional color wheel (the previous complementary colors challenge used this wheel)
So can anyone shed more light on this? Which color wheel do we humans percieve? That is, in general photography (not the contest) should we use the complements
RGB: Red-Cyan, Green-Purple, Blue-Yellow or
RYB: Red-Green, Yellow-Purple, Blue-Orange
My thoughts exactly! I'm confused as to which compliments to use. Color theory in my art class dealt with RYB whilst most photography books I've read seem to use RGB (and their compliments of CMY). I'm guessing that either will do well because no matter which set of compliments are used, they all provide nice color contrast.
The first challenge did not have many complementary colors - but contrasting ones, so I'm confused. Why say one thing and then ribbon others? Red and green are contrasting, red and orange are complementary. Yellow and Blue are contrasting, green and blue are complementary. Complementary are colors beside one another on the wheel.
The complementary colour of a primary colour (red, blue, or yellow) is the colour you get by mixing the other two primary colours. So the complementary colour of red is green, of blue is orange, and of yellow is purple.
• What about secondary colours?
The complementary of a secondary colour is the primary colour that wasn't used to make it. So the complementary colour of green is red, of orange is blue, and of purple is yellow.
