PRIMARY AND SECONDARY COLOURS

 Objective-

Capture both primary and secondary colours and bracket the images one stop under and

one stop over and show the change in intensity levels.

RED

Original raw image

f9 1/50 sec

 

Under exposed- tone of the red more intense

Over lighter, brighter but colour a bit washed out

Colour balanced and processed image from photoshop.

YELLOW

Original raw image

f4.5 1/50 sec

Over exposure- brighter intensitive of colour, sunflower yellow tones improved

Under- more orange tones in flowers.

 

 Colour balanced and reprcessed image-Lightened to increase the colour intensity

and increase the yellow tone of the flowers

ORANGE

Original raw image ( under exposed)

f 4.5 1/60 sec

Lighter- Orange tones brighter and more intense. The colour tones are improved

and are more closer to true orange.

Darker- more satured colour but too dull

Reprocessed and colour balanced image- lightened in photoshop and contrast
added.


MAUVE

Original raw image ( slighly under)

f 5.6 1/125 sec

Over- Improved colour levels on clothing improved but flag colour more washed out

Under- Colour intensity/ saturation  levels improved on the flags but top colour now
too dark

Colour balanced and re processed image. Colour lighted contrast improved
staturation levels increased


BLUE

Original raw image

f16 1.6 sec

Lighter- blue tones changed, sky more white hues

Darker- saturation intense, blue hue more dynamic.

Foreground too dark

Colour balanced and reprocessed image- added dark to imporve

colour intensitiy, lightened foreground to bring back detail

GREEN

Original raw image

f5.6 1/60 sec 

Lighter- tones at the top of image become more washed out and take on a

yellow tone in places

Darker- Intensity imporved and hue level improved im places

Colour balanced and reprocssed image. Colour darkend, contrast increased

tone is alittle more yellow than orginal image

LEARNING NOTES/COMMENTS

Note that often a slight under exposure may help improve colour saturation and colour
levels. Over exposure will wash out colour. Bracket all key colour images.