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Vintage floating crane, detail shot, Hamburg Port Museum
Minolta MD Zoom Rokkor 35-70mm 1:3.5 @ f/8
through Novoflex Minolta SR - Fuji X-Mount adapter
on Fujifilm X-E1
Check my album Adapted Manual Lenses for more...
still life set up for camera club; speedlite off camera flash bounced into umbrella ( apologies for trigger problems!!)
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52 in 2024 Challenge
33. Complementary Colours
Not quite green /red but pink is on the red spectrum so hopefully qualifies.
A bit of minimalism today, I loved how this orange buoy stood out against the clear blue water of the Ionian Sea
Pacific Highway bridges allow road traffic across Swansea Channel, and when lifted, allow boats into and out of Lake Macquarie.
Super-Takumar 35mm f3.5
Day 5 of Pentax Forums Daily in February 2020 Challenge.
Our DailyChallenge ... complementary colours
The blue basket with the orange and blue pens inside. Shots below show the basket and pens seperate.
"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #2 - Containers" "Thoroughly Abstract Thursday"
One of my attempts at this weeks "Crazy Tuesday" theme "Complementary Colours"
Shot with a "Tomioka-Copal 71 mm F 4" (enlarging) lens on a Canon EOS R5.
Two colors are complementary when it is possible to reproduce the tristimulus values of a specified achromatic stimulus by an additive mixture of these two stimuli.
Any questions?
...... on a colour wheel ......
52 Project 2018 Week 48
Theme: Opposites
HD PENTAX-DA 20-40mm f2.8-4 Limited
...a still life from every day life, amongst the pastel colours on the streets of a small town in rural Madhya Pradesh, in Central India
(© Handheld Films 2014)
Butternut Squash 400g, tomatoes x 6, onions x 1, potato x1, tomato puri 2 tablespoons, basil leaves x 8, S&P, vegetable stock 700ml.
I haven't used my soup maker for a very long time, but I'm looking forward to my soup over the next few days now I have.
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Week 6 52Frames Complementary Colours
A year in pictures ~ Week 4 of 52, Seasonal Fruit and Vegetables
Explore #345
My subject this week is such a colourful fruit, that I decided that it would have been unnecessary to subject it to any post processing warp, so instead I set out to capture its natural vibrance and energy. I had a concept based on the way we sometimes cut them open, and thought of the pieces flying apart in a kind of orange explosion. To simplify this and preserve the beauty of the cut surfaces, I opted for four large pieces and arranged them in a 3D scatter sculpture (I made that term up of course :D). I considered various backgrounds, but I kept coming back to blue, the complementary colour to orange. I also thought it would work to create a graduated backdrop, in my head at least it reminds me of the sky in the sunshine regions with which we associate these citrus fruits.
ISO100 f4 @1/50s. Flash on white background through blue gel & snoot, softbox camera left with reflector camera right to fill dark areas.
I've been aware in the last few weeks that the oranges that I've been getting have been absolutely at their best. They're one of those fruits that we get year-round these days, but the majority of times they are a little disappointing, either too dry or very tasteless. Those that are in the stores just now are juicy, sweet, tasty and best of all super-zangy (probably another made up word ;-). When you eat a good one, it's a blissful experience, and there's a relief associated with knowing that the memory of the last time you had one like it wasn't just a rose tinted nostalgia, but something to be repeated again and again at the right time of year. We all know the benefits of these wonderful fruits, so I'm not going to bore anyone with the list of vitamins, they're tasty enough in their own right to merit a place on everyone's fruit bowl, regardless of their healthy credentials.
Violet and purple are the bees' favour colours and the Bittersweet flower raises its petals to show everything, including green and white nectar guides that bees probably see in ultraviolet a bit like we do flashing neon. The magic of macro photography helps us admire the flowers, tiny to us at barely a centimetre long, but bigger that most of the little bumble bees I see enjoying them.
In his Book of British Berries, David Lang tells us Bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara, Woody Nightshade) has been known and used medicinally for a very long time, and as late as 1934 was a popular remedy for chronic rheumatism and skin eruptions. Children have been poisoned by the fruits but the only 12 cases listed by the National Poison Information Service at that time were mild and recovered fully within 24 hours. He adds that livestock rarely eat it, but some affected animals become addicted to it.
on my morning walk I saw.........................
ODT - COMPLEMENTARY COLOURS
"7 Days of Shooting" "Week #43 - Stones" "Thoroughly Abstract Thursday"
Active Assignment Weekly - Common Object
AAW - Nov. 29-Dec.6, 2021.
Tried to do something with complementary colours yellow and blue. Image cropped, sharpened and spots cloned off lemon.
See the album portraying the decaying existence of this tree stump.
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I was up early on this particular morning, took a look outside, and saw a heavy fog out past our back yard. I was struck that it was a Todd Hido style composition opportunity (see www.toddhido.com/homes for the style of images I am referencing). And it was also a nice opportunity to capture a yellow-violet(ish), complementary colour image from right at my back door. – JW
Date Taken: 2022-11-24
Date PP: 2026-04-01
(c) Copyright 2026 JW Vraets
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Tech Details:
Taken using tripod-mounted Nikon D800 fitted with an AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm VR 1:4.0 lense set to 165mm, ISO100, Daylight WB, Matrix metering, Aperture Priority Mode, f/8.0, 8 sec with an EV-1.33 exposure bias to preserve the dark violet tint in the image. PP in free Open Source RAWTherapee from Nikon RAW/NEF source: Set final image size to 9000px wide, crop to 16x9 and also level the image, set exposure compensation to EV-0.10, adjust the colour balance slightly, apply Tone Mapping as well as Dynamic Range Compression at default levels, use the Graduated Filter tool to slightly lighten the foreground, use Shadows/Highlights tool recover Highlights details, increase Chromaticity as well as contrast in L-A-B mode, increase Vibrance, sharpen (edges only), save. PP in free Open Source Gimp: use the Curves tool to slightly brighten overall but also deepen the darkest areas and thereby pull them back to the original level, sharpen, save, scale to 7200 px wide, sharpen, save, add fine black-and-white frame, add bar and text on left, save, scale image to 3700 px wide for posting online, sharpen very slightly, save.
The most flambuoyant and vivacious of our moth orchids this year is one sporting complementary colours, mauve and pale chartreuse. Not sure why one decided to look at the ground. This newer plant has out-performed several older Phalaenopsis for three years, but the sickly ones are recuperating under new LED lights, growing new roots, so I hope they might provide a more diverse display in February to June 2024. Healthy plants like this one are perfectly capable of responding to bright window light.
I have an agenda to educate the Flickr community about colour theory. If I enter this photo in a weekly challenge for complementary colours, an admin might reject it because it doesn't look properly green and red or purple and yellow to them. but these colours are not pressing any boundaries, not roughly complementary, they are precisely complementary.
Red, blue, and yellow are the three primary colours. Purple, green, and orange are the three secondary colours. Between the six there are six more valid tertiary colours including yellowish green (chartreuse) and reddish purple (mauve). If you look at a colour wheel they are direct opposites, perfectly complementary. Mauve understandably causes confusion because our culture treats it as purple, but in fact it's the tertiary colour between purple and red. It's a cool red, but it is closer to red than orange, a secondary colour, which sometimes gets accepted as "red" in the same circumstances where mauve is not. When people insist on following the rules about colour but do not trouble themselves to learn the tertiary colours, I just smack my forehead, then replace the hand with a camera and keep shooting.
But stepping off my soapbox... To make things more difficult, our cameras often have trouble recognizing the colours correctly, especially yellows and reds. In this shot it was necessary to slide yellow towards green to reproduce the natural colour of the flowers. Probably the Canon EOS RP would have done better than the smartphone with this.
Aren't these complementary colours beautiful?
Project 365, 2023 Edition: Day 93/365
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