This post is a response to Cee’s Compose Yourself Challenge: Color Basics, where she talks about warm and cool colors.
After reading her essay and reviewing many pictures, I realized that I do not tend to take pictures that are all warm or all cool. I tend toward taking pictures dominated by cool colors…but I like best ones with a pop of warm, or even hot color.
Here are some all cool pictures:
Here are some all warm pictures:
Here are examples of the pictures I tend to like, cool with a pop of warm color:
Occasionally I experiment with my camera’s settings and here are a two sets of pictures that I took with different color effects, regular, black and white, sepia and cyanotype. The sepia is warm and the cyanotype cool. To my eye the black and white also appears cool.
Grey day on Puget Sound:
Tree peony bloom:
XingfuMama 
You touched a bit on contrasting color with your using cool with a pop of warmth. Wonderful display of warm and cool colors for this week. 😀
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Congratulations!! I have selected this post to be featured on Cee’s Compose Yourself Challenge: #16 Color Basics.
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I sure hope you have a terrific week 😀
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Thank you. It was a good essay, one that will affect how I think about composing pictures from now on.
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Glad you liked the essay … and you are very welcome. 😀
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Love the ones of Puget Sound! 🙂
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Beautiful photos, all. Well done!
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Thank you. They aren’t as good as yours. I really liked your post for this challenge. I had never heard of the filter you mentioned before.
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Your photos are fabulous! You got so much variety and color too. The filter is an amber-colored warming filter by Tiffen. I’ve only used it a couple of times so I’m not sure which situations it works well in, other than those really gray days. Have a wonderful weekend!
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