Color!

I decided to use my favorite color for this week’s photo assignment: Purple. I have loved the color since I can remember, it’s an artistic color and it can be seen as soft and pillowy to rich and royal, it can be girly and elegant or edgy and rocker. I didn’t want to choose a primary color, because I thought purple would offer me more of a challenge and I enjoy that. The color offered a challenge in that it is harder to find unless you are seeking it out, unlike say the color red. I see purple as fun and funky so I immediately went with glamour and rocker!

For my first photo I decided to use one of my many colors of nail polish. It is purple glitter and I placed it on a lighter purple surface. I really wanted to expose the sparkle so I used the flash to illuminate the polish. I tried taking the photo with the top of the bottle on, but it was to mundane looking so I opened it and let it drip back into the bottle give it the illusion of movement.

For my second photo I grouped the purple polish with other different hues of the color and added like colors such as pinks. I am happy with the up close shot of the photo; I believe it adds more depth. I noticed that by grouping like colors it can give an overall feel to the photo, in this case fun and flirty and girly.

For my final photo I took a photo of the lead singer to one of my favorite bands Me Talk Pretty (now known as Cilver). The stage lights were set to purple and the gold metallic prink on her shirt illuminated under its glow. Purple and yellow/gold are opposites on the color wheel. This displayed my idea on how the color purple can be glamour rocker chic. I tried using the flash on my camera, but it eliminated the glowing colors of the lights, so I turned my flash off and received this great photo. I also think the contrast is appealing, because you see the vivid colors and dark background and black clothing. (Also I know Uliana, and she loves the color pink and is obsessed with glamour!)