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Photography is sometimes like clothing, too many colors, too bright colors will look very messy, while hierarchical, echoing colors can get better results.

In the previous recommended work, there is such a photographer, he has a strong sensitivity to color, the photos taken are bright and not cluttered, impressive.

Weekly recommendation | Niall McDiarmid meets color

So today, let's combine his works to analyze how Niall McDiarmid skillfully applies and deals with various colors:

1. Color unity is to unify several colors into similar colors, making the picture appear more concise.

It can be seen from Niall McDiarmid's work that he will consciously apply this technique in the early shooting and later color blending process.

(1) the unity of color in the shooting process, our adjustment of color is limited, but we can "screen" the color to find the responsive color and realize the unity of color.

For example, in this picture of Niall McDiarmid, the colors of the characters' hats, backpacks and trains echo well. The unified color looks both interesting and comfortable, forming a "decisive moment" in color.

At the same time, the high saturation also better highlights the color itself and strengthens the responsiveness.

The same is true of this photo, where the character's clothes echo the colors of the train.

This one seems to have gone through the later color processing, but we can also see that the color of the character's clothes is close to the background color itself, and the adjacent colors can also produce echoes.

(2) Color unification can also be achieved through the adjustment of hue, saturation and lightness in the later stage, such as this photo:

If we observe carefully, we can see that the most conspicuous blue in the color is actually after a certain post-processing, and the dark areas such as the wall and the ground are deliberately adjusted to blue (the separation of tones can easily achieve this process). In order to maintain the unity of color and contrast with the bright and warm environment of the room

The color unity here also plays a great role in making the picture more concise. In fact, the shooting environment of this photo is relatively messy, with a lot of interference elements, but after the color unity, our attention will be more focused on the color.

two。 Color transition Niall McDiarmid has a good grasp of color transition. Many of his photos are very rich in color, but they are also very organized and comfortable, so they will not appear cluttered.

Let's first take a look at a photo with relatively simple colors:

White-beige-yellow-orange-orange-red, there are many adjacent colors in the photo, any of which will not appear abrupt, especially the food on the plate is almost composed of all kinds of orange and yellow, which is very layered.

The following one is a little more complicated:

The red of the character's clothes and the green outside the window constitute a set of complementary colors, from the red of the characters to the orange-red of the furniture, and then to the light pink of the window wall is a very comfortable transition, and then to the outdoor clothes and orange flowers embellished on the trees. the color naturally approaches to the green and blue in the distance step by step.

The colors in the photos are many and miscellaneous, but because the transition is reasonable, it does not appear to be very messy.

3. Color contrast Niall McDiarmid photos also have a lot of color contrast, the more prominent is the complementary color contrast:

Like the contrast between red and green, blue and orange in the above photos, all make the color of the photo look visually powerful and comfortable.

Niall McDiarmid is also good at using multiple sets of complementary colors, such as the following photo:

There are several groups of complementary colors in the photo, the warm color is brighter, the cool color is dark, and it also appears to be very hierarchical, so the photo is colorful, but it is also organized.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: play some Photography (ID:wakexiao), by AGER

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