This week's assignment, consider your color palette is one that I love because it is completely about developing your style as a photographer. This is something I think about but I haven't quite figured out how to capture what I would consider to be my color palette when I am shooting. When I look at other photographer's photos, I am drawn to images that are monochromatic. I like images that are calming and soothing but I struggle with creating those types of images depending upon where I am shooting and the subject. The first photo posted below nails this for me and I want to continue to strive to create images like this.
On Saturday 4/2, I attended an event called Paws in the Park in Pineville NC. It is a fundraiser to bring awareness to Black Dog Syndrome which is centered around black dogs being the last to get adopted from shelters and the first to be euthanized. There were tons of people and their dogs at the event. I had a booth, my camera and 3 friends to help. I took photos and I posted them on an online gallery for people to view and purchase if they were interested. If you'd like to look at the photos, here is a link to the gallery. I know I won't do this type of event many more times. It was a lot of work but at this point in time of my photography career, the experience for me was invaluable AND I had a blast!!
In thinking about the 'Consider your Color Palette' challenge for this week, it's easy for me to choose the photos because I was in the same location for 4 hours on Saturday snapping photos of dogs. The colors are similar although it is interesting to me because the weather changed so much during the day, the tone of the colors in the photos did too. Below are several that I took on Saturday.
What I can't figure out and I would love anyone's input on this, how do you create a style or a color palette in your gallery of photos when you are photographing different dogs in different locations when the colors aren't the same? I know a lot of the work can be done in post processing but how do you try and take photos that have the same color palette? That is another composition challenge I've yet to figure out but I'm having a lot of fun experimenting.
Click here to go to I Got the Shot Photography, Northeastern PA Pet Photographer's page and see her take on the Project 52 - week 14 - Consider your Color Palette challenge. Be sure to click the link at the end of each post and you'll end up right back here!
