Colour relationships

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One photograph was taken for each combination of primary and secondary colours in the following proportions orange:blue 1:2,red:green 1:1 and yellow violet 1:3. As stated these combinations were not that easy to find and I had to crop the photographs to get closer to these proportions.

The top photographs of the church, the festival performer and the wheelbarrow all feature colour combinations that appeal to me. The photograph of the church featuring blue, red and yellow is probably technically imbalanced but I think it makes the photograph more striking. The photograph of the performer is also imbalanced featuring unusual colour combinations of red, yellow,pink and purple but I still think it works because of the tension of the imbalance of the colours.
I think the photograph of the wheelbarrow is much more subtle but I think the yellow accents in it work.

In conclusion this has been a useful exercise with regard to colour relationships. It has been interesting to learn that to make the most of colour combinations that it helps to take the brightness of the colour into consideration when determining ratios of colour in a photograph. However unbalanced colour ratios can sometimes provide a more interesting photograph.