Single Colour Photo Walk.
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I’ve been hosting photo walks for quite a while now and realise that that’s a great way for creative exploration and is a nice community for collaborations and development.
One of the walks I hosted, was dedicated to shooting in a single hue.
The colours were assigned randomly to each of us. I was using an app called Random Colour to have a good variation of hues.
And here is the thing, I realised that it can be more challenging and beneficial to use any hues and not limit ourselves only to the pretty ones.
As a result, this was the colour I got myself:
Everyone agreed that this was one of the most disgusting colours you could pick, so I decided to shoot green in general.
The idea behind this exercise is very simple: you shoot all of the images where you have this hue or similar hues as a dominant colour or at least as a hint.
While there is a lot of green objects our there and I picked the right area for the walk (an amusement park with many different colours around us), it was maybe even a bit trickier for some of us who got violet or magenta as their hue.
The Exercise Idea:
- You pick any colour or let an app pick it randomly for you.
- You go out to photograph anything that has that colour.
- The colour is your subject this time, try to show it as best as you can.
- Since a specific hue is very limiting, try to shoot this colour in general and then adjust the hue in the editing software. (otherwise, you might end up taking 2 pictures within 5 hours)
Here is the series that I got:
By the way, this was one of the first walks where I used my new Samyang 45mm f1.8. I got this to replace my Sony 50mm f1.8, and while these lenses get almost the same pictures, Samyang focuses around 2 times faster.
I would get more in detail but this is the topic for another post.
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