Week 12 ~ Color Contrast

1. I love taking trips to the zoo and visiting the birds section! My immediate reaction of this photograph is how much I like the vibrant colors. This photograph shows a lot of color contrast and is primarily an analogous color scheme (plus one more color). The expression on the birds face stands out to me. Whenever I look at this photo, I am reminded of how tame the bird was and how much fun it was to sit and talk to him. I also like the composition of the photograph and how the focus on the face is placed in the rule of thirds.

2. This photograph is a side profile of a parrot. His wing is bright turquoise with a green head and yellow breast. His beak is black and he is perched on a tree so there are branches and leaves behind him. You can only see about the top half of his body. The white of his head and eye are placed in the top right of the picture plane and the bird is facing towards the right of the picture. His beak is partially open because he was talking when I took the picture.

3. Although the quality of the photograph is not the best, I really like the composition. The color is beautiful; I love the contrast in the yellow and blue. The line quality is pleasing with the bird being vertical and the horizontal lines in the background (the tree branches). The placement of the parrot in the space is quite pleasing. It almost looks like a side profile portrait pose of a person. The way the shades and tins of the hues define the detail in the feathers is interesting. The overall color is quite similar but the detail still shows through.

4. Like I stated in the earlier paragraph, this photo reminds me of being at the zoo and sitting and listening to the birds talk. They always show so much expression, where it be annoyance or happiness. If I were to name this photo in one word it would probably be Vibrant because of the beautiful colors of the parrot’s feathers.

5. Cezanne uses beautiful hues to express his concepts. Most of the pieces that I could find were either still life (fruit) or a landscape. He is very free in his movement; in some ways I can see a resemblance in brush strokes that like my parrot’s feathers. Cezanne does a great job of creating depth in his paintings. I really like the depth that is created in my photograph because even though the birds head is green just like the background there is an obvious difference. Overall I can definitely see a connection between my landscape photo and Cezanne’s wonderful paintings.