Creating a colour wheel and how colour works, white balence and Adobe Kuler-interactive

Colour

During our lesson we were sent out to take pictures of different colours to create our own colour wheels, this could be colour from shop signs, to doors to packaging on food. I found it difficult to find subtle gradients of colours from dark to light like the example colour wheel we were given;

However I attempted to make it work, choosing to leave some colours out of my own wheel which would usually be key. After collecting my images I created my own colour wheel, it became obvious the main colour choices shop signs and businesses would use to represent themselves such as blues and reds. I wanted my colour wheel to look 'textured' using different forms of objects to show colours, which i achieved, however it is not as polished as a colour wheel you would find online. This is my finished colour wheel; 

Cultural Colour;

Cultural colour is the way in which different cultures and societies react to colour or the associations with a particular colour. Particular colours may have positive or negative implication within different societies such as the colour red; in western society can be related to danger or love and passion where as in China the colour red is used for funerals. Another example of cultural colour is the colour green, in Eastern society green relates to new life where as in India green relates to harvest. 

Ways in which colour works together;

One way in which colour can work together is known as 'complementary' in which colours that sit opposite one another on the colour wheel can complement one another or make one another seen more vibrant as they contrast each other. For example; a purple flower would complement a grassy back ground as the colours contrast one another on the wheel however make an image seem more vibrant. Another way colours can work together is through 'tint and shade' the tint of a colour how light a colour is where as the shade of a colour is the depth or darkness of a colour, putting on against the other tint and shade can help to add value (the light or darkness) of an image to create tone.

Analogous colours is another way in which colour works together as analogous colours are the colours found next to one another on the colour wheel, analogous colours work well together as the colours tend to compliment one another well. As well as analogous colour, there is also neutral, cool and warm colours which can work together well. Neutral colours tend to be colours such as grey or brown, more 'earthy tones' which you usually do not find in the colour wheel which can work together to compliment an image with more subtle colour, cool colours found in the colour wheel are what you would relate to the cold-icy colours such as blues and purples and sometimes greens which can be used for imagery such as winter skies. Finally, warm colours on the colour wheel such as red, yellow and orange-colours you would relate to being hot can be used for imagery such as summer or warmth.

White Balance

White balance should be corrected when filming so that you do not have any unrealistic colour tone in your video footage, white balancing sets your camera to identify pure white. As the human eye is more advanced than that of a digital camera, they have the ability to white balance themselves where as a camera lens does not therefore it is necessary for the camera to be manually white balanced. Without identifying true whites, camera footage can have blue, orange or green tinges to it therefore ruin the overall appeal of the footage. White balancing can identify the true white in your footage, the camera doesn't know what the white is until it is identified manually, in doing this the colours level out through the lens and al is balanced.  

Adobe Kuler

Adobe Kuler allows you to create colour palettes which you the have the ability to share in other Adobe programs such as illustrator and photoshop. Once opening up Kuler, you will find a colour wheel in which has five colour arrows that correspond to the colours underneath the wheel, move one of the colours and the colour underneath will change depending on the colour selected. Using the different pointers means that the tone of the shades will change underneath the wheel which you can then use on Adobe software.