so I want to talk today about how
complementary colors can really really
help up the quality of your photographs
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if you don't know what I'm talking about
with complementary colors you see this a
lot in West Anderson films he does an
amazing amazing job of marrying the
subject to the environment and he does
this by using similar colors so the fun
thing about this technique is that you
don't actually need to match the exact
color to the background to what your
subject is wearing you can actually do
similar colors and you can do too subtle
or as heavy as you like to do a guy like
Wes Anderson tends to do it very
heavy-handed but if you'd like to be a
little more subtle with it you can
here's an image that I did right here of
Carrie and you notice we're not using
perfectly similar colors here we're
using a very neutral color palette her
hairband matches some of the colors in
the blanket her hair color matches some
of the guitar the record covered with
the pinks and the blues matched some of
the old Polaroids and the vinyl album
covers we put over there next to her
head
these weren't mistakes these are things
that we actually put in the photograph
to make the image feel like it flowed
better from what she was laying on to
how she was styled and the props that
she had with her it feels like a more
natural image it feels like a more
blended image and and it makes you like
the picture a little bit more and you
don't really know why but it's because
those colors are complementing each
other you don't just have to do this
with portrait photography you can do
this with product photography with food
photography almost anything you want
you'll start to notice when you take
photographs that you're looking for this
all the time now if someone's wearing a
red scarf you're going to be looking for
a little hints of red in the background
if someone's wearing a green shirt
you're gonna be looking for colors that
compliment that green so actually one
really cool hack that I like to use on
set when I'm trying to figure out colors
and what colors will work together is
the Adobe color app or it's like a color
palette now what you want to do is just
hop on the website there it's colored
Adobe calm or cooler dot adobe.com
and you're just gonna find your primary
color that you'd like to be your main
standout color in your image so let's go
to complementary and now you can just go
ahead and drag this color wheel and find
some colors that work together now say I
wanted to do
a purplish pink hue it'll give me
complemented colors from there and you
can go up here and you can find
different variations of those color
palettes that you can work with it's
really really helpful when you're trying
to find some background accent colors
things of that nature and you can really
start to play with it and see what the
possibilities are for the color palette
of the image that you're making if you
implement this technique into your
photography you help tell the story
better it helps put the subject into the
environment better and makes it feel
more natural and I am going to die
because I'm too cold I will see you guys
later
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