Tuesday, January 3, 2012

The value of value

Hello again ladies and gents- onwards we shall go through the fascinating world of colour to our next destination, value!
Put simply, value is the science of using colour in response to the lighting conditions or the need to convey emotions in your compostition. If you were to take most good compositions in any medium and make them grayscale, you'd usually find that they work in black and white too. This is, in part, thanks to that delightful chap mr Value!

If there are alot of very contrasting values, the scene with have depth to it (For example a darkened forground, and a lightened background)
Whereas if there is very little contrast in value, the image will seem very flat and connected!


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