Dealing with white sky

I was pretty much aware of that the sky was white. Even thought it came out on my images.

What do I do? I looked up the Internet to get some ideas but nothing worked. Finally I just found nice sky from other photo and fill in the white sky.



Is it too sneaky?

Study of value

Blue and Orange are COMPLEMTARY colors which means that colors opposite each other on the color wheel. They produce strong optical effects.

However they have same value.

Even though Blue and Orange work together as complementary colors making strong effect part of our brain see the colors as the same value. 

So what?

^_^a

Ambiguous Figure Ground Composition

FIGURE : An image that appears to be somewhat closer to the viewer than the background; also called positive shape. 

GROUND : The area that appears to be farthest from the viewer; also called "background" or "field."
FIGURE-GROUND REVERSAL : A composition in which it is difficult to tell what is figure and what is background; also called "figure-ground ambiguity."

So the goal of this job is that make ambiguous what is FIGURE and what is GROUND

To create figure-ground reversal effect the portion should be about 50/50 percent and used similar shape.
If I take a photo aiming at the same effect, it will be like,

something like that?

If there is different shape used

it will stand out. If there is closed figure used

It will stand out as well.(guess what where is closed figure?)

For the job, figure-ground ambiguity, I should avoid to use different shape or closed figure, however, at the same time, this is the way how we get attention.

When we take photo we want our object to stand out as a closed figure. That is why we should see negative space when we take photo because that can be the reason for an object lose its quality as a closed figure.

Which is the Best One?

I think 6 is the best!

Images from Japanese House

How 400 color looks like.

I just finished a job for two dimensional design class. The job was that making 400 different color. I used only five different color. Red, blue, yellow, white, and black. I am sure this practice help me a lot to be aware color and I have been thinking that I might need to take color theory class to have better eyes for photograph, I am having second thought after having this job though. What a job!! It took me forever to finish. When I was still doing this job, before sleep the image painting brush making color came up to me as soon as I closed my eyes. I could not summit this project on time. I kind of regret not because I lost point but because I lost the chance to compare my job to other students job. It is amazing the color came out so differently depends on each person. Actually this job shows the person's personality according to my professor.

Here is my personality!

Open Shade Experiment

Nice out today!

I walked through a lovely park.I saw same kind of flowers in different lighting condition, one is under direct sun and the other one is in the shade.

It is good time to do experiment OPEN SHADE.

Open shade means the object is in shade  but upward open (if I remember it right)
So the right side of flowers are in the open shade.

First shooting under the direct sun.

The shadow are harsh, and colors lost its details.

Next shooting in the open shade. 

Still no good???

Yes, it is much batter compare to the first one. 

Just make sure put your object completely in the shade and use better camera.