Project 2 Color and Grids

For our color and grids project we used old and new photos to create grids that used complimentary colors, cool colors, warm colors, and monochrome. To create a grid we edited photos and then put them into a grid-template we created in the print module of lightroom. After we imported the grid to lightroom we then edited the grid to help it portray a color technique. We also found one picture we had taken that we thought portrayed a mood and further edited it to make the mood more apparent.

Mood Post

This is a picture I took of a window, where the room is dark and the light coming in castes  an orange glow. I edited the photo and made the shadows darker and the light from the window more of a orange tint. I did this to further show the mood I felt when looking at the picture, a mood of warmth and comfort yet also a small amount of mystery, caused by not knowing whats on the other side of the window.

Complimentary Colors

I took a picture of raspberries and of a holly plant and combined them together in a grid. Red and green are complementary colors, so with the green in the leaves of the holly plant and the red of the raspberries, complementary colors are portrayed.

Cool Colors

I used an old picture of Berritt up against glass and edited the picture multiple times in different ways to make the glass behind her different shades and to have her orientated different directions. Once I did that I combined them in a grid to create almost an optical illusion, and then edited the grid in lightroom to make the overall grid more of a blue tint, creating a cool colors grid.

Warm Colors
I took close up picture of a specific type of leaf. Once I had taken the picture I edited them into different sizes and put them into a custom grid I made. I created an optical illusion in this grid by stacking three of the same picture on top of each other diagonally to create a continuos line, making it look like one leaf. I then took the grid and edited it in
lightroom to make the warmth of the picture more apparent.

Monochrome
I did two monochrome grids. One was of a collection of eye pictures I had taken and the other of an abstract piece of art I had taken a picture of. In both I changed the grid to black and white, picked a hue, and then added a varying level of saturation to make the grid monochrome.

Extra Grid 

This grid shows different pictures of my friend Cate playing with sparklers. I feel like this grid has a carefree happy mood because Cate is portrayed with almost a childish fascination while looking at the sparklers.

Pre-Work- Mood Post and Color Wheel

Color was used to add a mood to this photo. The mood I get when looking at this is almost a creepy, ominous feeling due to the dark red skies behind the brighter lit scene. The dark red is really the color in the picture that helps create the mood. So to make this ominous mood even more apparent I think the photographer could have made the skies a redder tint and darkened the foreground.

Kirk Crippens

This is a color wheel showing primary, secondary, and tertiary colors.