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Where Is the Contrast?
CONTRAST IS ABOUT DIFFERENCE. The way tones or colours differ from one another—that’s contrast. But so, too, is the way lines or shapes differ. You can even have contrasting ideas. When you place a newborn baby in the hands of a grandfather, you create contrast. When you place a small human in a vast building, that is contrast. It’s actually several contrasts, including a contrast of human versus architectural, and small versus large. The degree of success that contrast achieves in drawing our eye and making us pay attention to a photograph comes from the amount of difference between the elements. Yellow contrasted with orange might be a little too subtle to make you look twice, but yellow with blue is a contrast with ...
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