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Compose with color contrast

Compose with color contrast - iPhone Tutorial

From the course: Mobile Photography Weekly

Compose with color contrast

- [Sean] Hi, I'm Sean Duggan. This week on Mobile Photography Weekly we're gonna focus on some image making approaches that you can use with any type of camera to not only exercise your creative eye, but also to calibrate and fine-tune your eye so you can see more image possibilities. In this week's episode, the focus is on creating compositions that are based on color contrast. So first of all, let me clarify what I mean when I say color contrast. It's much more than just bright colors on a sunny day, though of course those can certainly qualify. It could be an image such as this one where the overall scene is not that colorful except for one splash of bright color. Here's another example of that concept in action. When I say color contrast, I'm referring to photos where the differing colors create a natural contrast or difference, as well as scenes with colors that pair well together to create bright, bold and eye-catching juxtapositions. Before we look at more images, let's pay a…

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