Study Task 4: Colour Experiments

Contrast of Saturation

For contrast of saturation, I did these experiments under a daylight lamp, using a range of different materials. For the first image I used green card, which was then carried on throughout the rest of the images here. I then placed the light green cloth on top of it, doing this decreased the saturation of it even more. I then placed a darker green as well as a paper stamp, the card saturation seemed to stay the same while the saturation of the stamp decreased dramatically, while the darker green became almost black in the photograph. Although in person it was rather darker, more saturated.

 Contrast of Hue

With hue, I wanted to experiment with the primaries for the highest contrast difference, so blue, yellow, green and red. Firstly I placed the yellow and the red, the yellow was contrasted a lot with the blue while the red and yellow didn't contrast so much because they were closer on the colour wheel.  Where as the biggest difference is between the yellow and blue they contrast a lot more, and due to been complimentaries. The green in similar aspect to the red and yellow. 

Light differences

I wanted to experiment with different types of light and how they affected different white objects. These first ones were tiles, with sunlight coming in through the window, this light gave the tiles a yellowed look rather than the blue that was reflected on them.

Outside on a sheet of paper the light gave the paper the perception of been blue, roughly at 12pm on a cloudy day. 

The light appeared to be really grey the sink when i'd reflected of the porcelain later on, cloud and rain.

I think this really shows how you can't rely on the actual sun light to try and perceive colours because of exactly how much it changes. 

 Neutral Colour Experiment

For one experiment I wanted to see how neutral colours reacted with a lot more saturated hue. The results were the following, I used wood to experiment with so I had a lot of different hues to work with.

The red against the wood accentuates it's self against the wood because of how strong and saturated the hue is compared to the hue of the wood which is desaturated and set back.