Single Colour Photo Walk.

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Photo by Fedor Vasilev

I’ve been hosting photo walks for quite a while now and realise that that’s a great way for creative exploration and is a nice community for collaborations and development.

One of the walks I hosted, was dedicated to shooting in a single hue.

The colours were assigned randomly to each of us. I was using an app called Random Colour to have a good variation of hues.

And here is the thing, I realised that it can be more challenging and beneficial to use any hues and not limit ourselves only to the pretty ones.

As a result, this was the colour I got myself:

Everyone agreed that this was one of the most disgusting colours you could pick, so I decided to shoot green in general.

The idea behind this exercise is very simple: you shoot all of the images where you have this hue or similar hues as a dominant colour or at least as a hint.

While there is a lot of green objects our there and I picked the right area for the walk (an amusement park with many different colours around us), it was maybe even a bit trickier for some of us who got violet or magenta as their hue.

The Exercise Idea:

• You pick any colour or let an app pick it randomly for you.
• You go out to photograph anything that has that colour.
• The colour is your subject this time, try to show it as best as you can.
• Since a specific hue is very limiting, try to shoot this colour in general and then adjust the hue in the editing software. (otherwise, you might end up taking 2 pictures within 5 hours)

Here is the series that I got:

Photos by Fedor Vasilev. These 3 shots above weren't as green originally. They all were greenish but I enhanced the vibrancy of green to make them fit the series better.

Photos by Fedor Vasilev

Photos by Fedor Vasilev

Photos by Fedor Vasilev

Photos by Fedor Vasilev. I conveniently took the U4 metro line which has a green colour and took that last picture.

By the way, this was one of the first walks where I used my new Samyang 45mm f1.8. I got this to replace my Sony 50mm f1.8, and while these lenses get almost the same pictures, Samyang focuses around 2 times faster.

I would get more in detail but this is the topic for another post.

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