Exploring With a Camera ~ Color Part 2

Learning about colors on the color wheel and how they can be used together has been the focus of Exploring With A Camera at Kat Eye View Of The World. I learned about the color wheel in school and I've used it in my quilt making to find complimentary colors, but this exploration of the color wheel in photography has been a challenge.  I have lots of photos with colors, just not the right combination of colors. Some of these photos I took to demonstrate the color combination and others I found in my archives. I'm learning how pleasing the right color combinations can be!

 ~ Complimentary colors ~

these are two colors directly opposite on the color wheel
red and green

~ Triadic Colors ~

three colors that are equally spaced along the wheel

the colors in this photo happen to be the three primary colors

red, yellow, and blue

~ Triadic Variation ~

two of the three colors from a Triad

green and violet

the third wold be orange

 ~ Tetrad ~

 four colors equally spaced on the color wheel

yellow, blue, violet, orange

~ Proportion Of Color ~

it's usually more pleasing when the color combination has unequal amounts of each color

with three colors you think of 60 - 30 - 10

I think this is close to

60% of green

30% of orange

10% of yellow

Looking for color has been fun, a challenge yes, but fun!  Now that I've explored the color wheel and it's combinations, it will be interesting to see how often I find them in future photos.