Assignment 4: Color - Orange

 

 

This color project was fun.  It definitely helped me to notice color even more. Every time I go anywhere now I see a thousand things that make me really wish I had my camera so I could photograph them!  The hardest part of this was definitely editing.  There are a million and one ways to illustrate each different color, and if sorting through hundreds of photos and dividing them into different categories wasn't hard enough, picking a color after that was even harder.  I finally chose orange because I felt I had enough really different representations of orange, and since it's one of my least favorite colors I thought the challenge would be a good thing.  Anna was helpful in the editing process, too.

For this project, I wanted each photo to represent orange in a different way.  I wanted to have it interact with different colors in each photo, and to have a different mood and feel in each.  I also wanted each picture to be in a different setting and for the subject matters to be diverse.  I also wanted them to be visually appealing, though, and put more emphasis on the "prettiness" of the photos than I did on any of the other assignments thus far.  In one sense I was trying to still challenge myself to take photos outside of my comfort zone while bringing my love of aesthetically pleasing images back into the equation.

My project could have been improved had I worked harder at finding more subtleties within the color, I think.  While the first photo illustrates the different ranges of orange (and red) fairly well, many of the other photos don't.  I shot a LOT for this assignment, but I think my shooting would have been much more productive had I decided which color to choose much earlier in the process.  Then again, shooting for other colors probably helped me to see orange that much more clearly.

If I could have done this project over again, I would have continued to shoot much more, and would have worked more with Anna.