Yellow Selection:

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I chose these photos for my yellow selection because of the ways they play with color, reflections, and contrast. Some of these images are from the photo studio, with the differently colored lights interacting with the objects in interesting ways. Some of these images were from the outdoors, under the high exposure and sunlight, creating many bright spaces and contrasting with the pops of color. More importantly, these images are all taken in ordinary locations of ordinary things – a simple set of DnD dice, a piece of paper on a table, a snapshot of a hallway or a leaf on the sidewalk – that have gained new life and vibrance under a set of different lens that was willing to take the time to capture their beauty.

Green Selection:

I chose this image because of its vivid colors, and it was an interesting experiment in how I could use them in editing to shape my images.

This image was taken with a high exposure from the sunlight outside, and the brightness helps bring out a hard sort of clarity in the colors, and the entire image feels cold.

This image has a lot of interesting colors and contrast between the bright and the dark, and there is also a sort of gradient from red to blue and draws the attention of the viewer.

This image and the editing helps bring out colors in a place where we normally would not expect there to be any, and these colors are very pretty too! Editing this was like opening a mysterious box, because you never know what secrets could be hiding inside such a normal object.

This image has a very unique angle, and the tilt helps set it apart from the other images by giving it some more movement.

This image was an interesting experiment in low exposure, and the darkness and the light have a nice contrast and creates some interesting shadows.

This image shows the different colors that are reflected on the planes of the dice, and the way these colors interact with each other is very different from what you expect it to be like.

This monochromatic image is intriguing and has a serious, mysterious mood, which the darkness and low exposure also contributes to.

This image is full of geometric shapes and negative space, broken up by the analogous color palette and straight lines.

This image feels dark and dull, which is a very interesting contrast compared to the rest of the photos in this set.

Red Selection:

I chose this image for the final 3 photos because of its vivid colors, which was something that I focused on accentuating during editing. This image was another one of the photos with the high exposure from the sunlight, which might have helped bring out the sharp contrast in this image between the colors and the white spaces, creating lots of interesting shapes. Combined with the colors, it is definitely one of my favorite photos out of this collection. Some room for improvement would be to tweak the settings during editing some more to take away some of the pink blotchy shapes, which breaks up the colors and contrast in the image in a strange way. Another potential improvement would be to turn down the brightness of the image just a little bit, so that it doesn’t burn your eyes as much.

I chose this image for my final 3 photos of this set because I liked the ways the colors interacted with each other without being overwhelming, and it has that “otherworldly” feeling that I was aiming for in my photos, despite depicting a bunch of rather regular dice. The limited color palette, bright colors, reflection of the dice on the flat surface, and the way the colors swirl around inside the dice all add to the overall effect. Some room for improvement or change would be potentially adding a soft (mostly unnoticeable) glow around the dice (maybe with another small light source) to add to the otherworldly feeling, but aside from that, I’m pretty happy with this photo.

I chose this image for my red selection because of its bold colors, and specifically the ways they interact with each other. The bright yellows blends nicely with the reds and pinks and purples, with the green providing a pop of color. The different colors also move in very interesting ways, making a lot of cool shapes and flowing lines in the image. For further improvements, it would be interesting to change the color or brightness of the gray areas so that they match with the rest of the image better.