As I’m just really getting started with more serious color work, I noticed something interesting today. That for me at this point color choices are very iterative. I was working with a red today, and created a red that was a darker shade of another red. It was fine and worked with it a while.
Then something just wasn’t right, it needed to be darker. So I made an even darker shade, worked with it, made more adjustments to my image and it was so much better.
Then I looked, and it still wasn’t right. What’s interesting is that the color itself had been correct all along, but this shade of the color “glowed” too much. It still wasn’t dark enough. So I made it darker again.
There’s an interesting feeling when a color moves toward the correct color. Each change is like a sigh of relief. But this color was more the right color and it felt good. And the process is like going to the eye doctor, “Which colors is better, this one or this one? Now this one or this one?”
I didn’t quite realize this business of working with color was going to be such an intuitive process. I almost always speak to myself in lighting terms not in color terms when working with color. I wonder if in the future I’ll get more sensitive and be able to tell some of these things and choose correct colors right from the start?
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