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What Does Colour Contribute?
BECAUSE COLOUR IS ENTIRELY A FUNCTION OF LIGHT, this is as good a place as any to discuss it, though these chapters should not be considered necessarily sequential. As these are all questions related to the making of images, you could ask them at any point. In fact, these questions can also be asked in an evaluative way when you’re making edits and selecting one image over another or in post-production when, for example, you’re trying to decide if adjustments to the colour are needed and why your eye keeps drifting off to that one element in the frame that captures so much of your attention but is not the point of the image.
Colour is really seductive. Our brains are hardwired to pay attention to colours and assign ...
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