Color .. Line .. Pattern .. Texture



The power of the color of Red

Color : The arrangement of colors in a photograph will help you create the elusion of depth or a three dimensional composition.
Warm colors (Red, Yellows) will ascend from a photograph while cool colors (Greens, Blue) will resend in a photograph. 
Colors and their relationships to one another is a very powerful tool when it comes to organizing your photograph.
Did your eye not go to the Red Flowers on this page immediately.




These type lines produce a restful type image



Horizontal lines
 
imply, restfulness, tranquility, peacefulness.
Low horizon lines emphasizes the sky, spaces, and distance. 
High horizons emphasize close proximity, and objects in he foreground.



Patterns are every where in our environment
 



Patterns
are made up of Lines and Shapes.
In color photography, lines and shapes are often
formed entirely by color.
Patterns exist almost every where. You only have
to open your heart and mind to discover them.
Visual Awareness.

Textures

 



Texture: We can translate a tactile effect onto a two-dimensional piece of film by creating implied texture, . Curling, dried mud, weathered wood, soft grasses, and sandstone all have textures that can be photographed. Texture is most commonly brought out with an oblique angle of light, (sidelight) which, in skimming the surface of the object, records the pockets of contrast, and picks up the hairs, cracks, curls, and ridges to create the textured effect.
Soft, diffuse light also works well, if there is enough contrast to define the texture. 


Black & White Gallery Nature Photography by Gary D.Tonhouse Photography Gallery