Throughout this project I aimed to capture the essence of the colour modes RGB and CMYK. I feel I did this during the first part of task 1 by first creating mood boards to represent the two colour modes. The first mood board I created was for the colour mode RGB. This mood board was created by looking through magazines and finding images which included the colours red, green and blue and removing them from the magazines then sticking them to an A3 sheet of paper. For this mood board I included all of the colours from the RGB colour mode but I grouped each of the colours together so it was clear that the mood board was for the colour mode RGB and not just a random mood board containing these colours. As I found all of the images that were used in this mood board from different magazines, there is no theme running through the mood board other than the RGB colour mode and all of the images are unrelated to each other. If I was to redo this mood board, one way in which I could improve it would be to include images found from different sources such as online images or items that have been found (such as a red ribbon or a green button etc...). The mood board I created for the CMYK colour mode is slightly different to the RBG one as I created four separate mood boards, one for each of the colours in the colour mode. It is also slightly different as it was created digitally rather than physically. All of the images I used for the CMYK mood board are images of artwork that I found whilst looking through art and photography books found in the library. To find the images that I used in this mood board, I looked through various art and photography books in the library and found images of photographs and artwork by various artists, I then referenced the image, writing down the name of the artwork, the year of the artwork, the artist and the title and author of the book, then using Google Images, I searched for the artwork and added a digital copy of it to the CMYK mood boards. While searching for the images of the artwork in the art and photography books, I found that the colour Cyan was the most difficult to find as it was difficult to tell in a lot of the images if it was cyan or just a paler shade of blue.
The second part of task 1 called for a photoshoot of signage and promotional material in the colours Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and black around Bradford city centre. I found this task quite east to complete as there is a lot of bright and vibrant signage and promotional materials around the city of Bradford. As Bradford has a lot of different signage and promotional materials in various different colours, it was quite easy to find most of the colours such as Red, Green, Blue and Black however I found it more difficult to find signage and promotional materials in the colours Yellow, Cyan and Magenta. All of signage that I found in the colours red, green, blue and black I feel were very eye catching and appealing to look at, I feel this is why there were more signage and promotional materials in these colours and less in the colours yellow, cyan and magenta as these colours do not stand out and catch the eye quite as much as the others.
Task two was a photographing task in which I had to go to Saltaire and photograph a variety of different subjects that contained the colours from the two colour modes, RGB and CMYK. Again I found this task relatively easy and the only colour I really struggled to find was cyan. I found a wide variety of different images for each of the colours such as flowers, cars, clothing and doors however, when it came to finding items which were cyan in colour, I found that there was less to choose from and the task became trickier.
The first part of task three was to create duotoned images using photoshop. Once I had been out and taken a selection of photographs, I then went to photoshop to edit them to be duotoned. To create the duotoned images, I first used photoshop to drop the image to greyscale. Once I had the greyscale image I then edited the levels of the image to make the main lines in the image stand out more and to make the image appear more focused and clear. Once I had done this and was happy with the way the image looked, I then went to the duotone setting on photoshop and made the colout of the duotone match the colour of the original picture, for example, for the image I edited to be my Cyan duotone, the original image was of a cyan coloured flower so I made the duotone for that image cyan to match the oringinal colour of the flower. To create the duotone images I had to use photoshop, as I am new to photoshop, this proved difficult to begin with as I was unsure of where each setting was located and I kept looking in wrong places. This problem was quickly resolved though as I got used to the program and how it works. I like the duotone effect on images as it is different to images that are in full colour and it looks simple yet effective and it is a nice change from standard photographs which are not edited in this way.
The second part of task 3 was another photographing task, but this time I was required to do a still life photoshoot involving random object which contained the colours red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow and black. I found that this photoshoot was easier to complete than the others as for this one, I had set object that I had to photograph rather than having to try and find items off different colours while out and about. This made this photoshoot easier to compete as there was no difficulty in finding items in certain colours to photograph. Before doing this photo shoot, I have not had much experience with still life photography, therefore I feel that my photographs are not the best they could be, however with practice and experience I believe that I could take the same photographs but better. One thing I found difficult with this photoshoot was getting the lighting right. I shot most of these images outside relying only on natural light. This proved to be a problem as harsh, unwanted shadows were often formed and there was not much I could do to prevent this. Towards the end of this shoot, I took a few photographs inside under artificial light from directly above me, this proved to be better lighting for this type of photography for me. If I was to redo this shoot, I would prefer to do the whole shoot inside with artificial light from directly above like I did towards the end of the photoshoot.
Task four of this project required me to create two colour grids displaying the two colour modes RGB and CMYK. The first colour grid I created was for the colour mode CMYK. For this colour grid I used four images of each colour to create a square grid of photographs. Amongst the grid, I included four duotoned images, one for each of the colours. I arranged the images in vertical groups according to their colour then placed the duotoned images in a diagonal fashion throughout the colour grid. The second colour grid I created was for the colour mode RGB and it if very similar in layout to the one which was created for the colour mode CMYK. The RGB colour grid was slightly smaller than the CMYK colour grid as there are less colours in the colour mode, however, the layout of the grid was essentially the same. As the colour grid I created had to be square, this meant that I had to crop each of the images to be perfectly square. I did this by using the crop tool in photoshop. To crop the images, I clicked the 'crop' tool then set it to the right dimensions (4.5cm x 4.5cm for the CMYK colour grid and 6cm x 6cm for the RGB colour grid) then set the resolution of the image to 300 pixels per inch, then moved the highlighted cropping box to where I wanted the image to be cropped, the clicked 'ok' and my image was instantly cropped to the right size. I repeated this process with each of the images in the colour grid meaning each of the images would be of the same size and resolution so when it came to putting the grid together, all of the images would fit together perfectly and seamlessly. I also used photoshop to create the actual colour grids. Once i got the hang of how to do this, it was a very easy process. Creating the colour grids consisted solely of dragging the cropped images into a new document on photoshop and arranging them into a grid. As I have very limited experience with photoshop, I did find it a little challenging to create the colour grids in the beginning as I was using tools in photoshop that I was unfamiliar with. At one point I got a little confused and forgot to click the 'move' tool then wondered why my images were not moving. i soon realised my mistake and quickly corrected what I was doing. Another small mistake i made while creating these colour grids was while I was cropping the image I set the resolution wrong. I accidentally set the resolution to 300 pixels per centimetre rather than 300 pixels per inch, this mean that although the height and width were set correctly, the image came out at a different size and was quite a lot larger than it was supposed to be. Again, this was easily corrected by going to the cropping options and changing the setting from pixels per centimetre to pixels per inch.
I believe my project was successful since it showed off the two colour modes RGB and CMYK. If I could change one thing to do with this project it would be that I would reshoot the still life images as i am not happy with the lighting in a lot of those photographs. This project and the still life shoot in particular, has really taught me the importance of light and shadows within a photograph and how much of a difference the lighting can make. Overall, I am pleased with the work I have done during this project as I feel I have portrayed the colour modes RGB and CMYK in the best way that I can.
Task four of this project required me to create two colour grids displaying the two colour modes RGB and CMYK. The first colour grid I created was for the colour mode CMYK. For this colour grid I used four images of each colour to create a square grid of photographs. Amongst the grid, I included four duotoned images, one for each of the colours. I arranged the images in vertical groups according to their colour then placed the duotoned images in a diagonal fashion throughout the colour grid. The second colour grid I created was for the colour mode RGB and it if very similar in layout to the one which was created for the colour mode CMYK. The RGB colour grid was slightly smaller than the CMYK colour grid as there are less colours in the colour mode, however, the layout of the grid was essentially the same. As the colour grid I created had to be square, this meant that I had to crop each of the images to be perfectly square. I did this by using the crop tool in photoshop. To crop the images, I clicked the 'crop' tool then set it to the right dimensions (4.5cm x 4.5cm for the CMYK colour grid and 6cm x 6cm for the RGB colour grid) then set the resolution of the image to 300 pixels per inch, then moved the highlighted cropping box to where I wanted the image to be cropped, the clicked 'ok' and my image was instantly cropped to the right size. I repeated this process with each of the images in the colour grid meaning each of the images would be of the same size and resolution so when it came to putting the grid together, all of the images would fit together perfectly and seamlessly. I also used photoshop to create the actual colour grids. Once i got the hang of how to do this, it was a very easy process. Creating the colour grids consisted solely of dragging the cropped images into a new document on photoshop and arranging them into a grid. As I have very limited experience with photoshop, I did find it a little challenging to create the colour grids in the beginning as I was using tools in photoshop that I was unfamiliar with. At one point I got a little confused and forgot to click the 'move' tool then wondered why my images were not moving. i soon realised my mistake and quickly corrected what I was doing. Another small mistake i made while creating these colour grids was while I was cropping the image I set the resolution wrong. I accidentally set the resolution to 300 pixels per centimetre rather than 300 pixels per inch, this mean that although the height and width were set correctly, the image came out at a different size and was quite a lot larger than it was supposed to be. Again, this was easily corrected by going to the cropping options and changing the setting from pixels per centimetre to pixels per inch.
I believe my project was successful since it showed off the two colour modes RGB and CMYK. If I could change one thing to do with this project it would be that I would reshoot the still life images as i am not happy with the lighting in a lot of those photographs. This project and the still life shoot in particular, has really taught me the importance of light and shadows within a photograph and how much of a difference the lighting can make. Overall, I am pleased with the work I have done during this project as I feel I have portrayed the colour modes RGB and CMYK in the best way that I can.
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