The significance of color in photography

As for me, color is a really important element in my daily life, as well as my art, and it also makes me feel happy. I mean, I don't hate black and with, since those are necessary in photography sometimes. For example, black and white is easy to show not only the texture of pictures’ detail but also the overall sense of pictures. However, even though black and white photography preferred by lot of world famous photographers, I still believe that color photography is my way.

Firstly, color is a way to express emotion in photography. As people knows that, red means vitality; green means peace; blue means sad and black means death. The most color in the picture determined the strongest feeling that the author would like to convey. For example, forest makes people feel comfortable and full of hope; sunrise means energetic and enthusiasm; lake is easy to show clean and pure. Therefore, audiences are able to feel the emotion simply and directly by color photography.    

Secondly, it is easy to represent the emphasis by color photography. Sometimes, big contrast between subject and background may play an important role in stress the main point of a picture. For instance, in the picture, if the subject is bright and the background is light, people can identify the subject. Besides, if the subject and the background are both bright or light, use different color can highlight the subject as well. So, in order to give prominence to subject, color photography will be a wise choice.

     

Lastly, color can make pictures looks more interesting. As color’s match may create fantastic visual effect. For example, large areas of different colors are able to divide screen into many pieces, so that pictures are looked interesting by those patterns. In this case, color may be the subject in the picture

All in all, I strongly consider that color is essential in photography, which endue pictures more expressive and visual impact as well as makes picture seems more attractive.