"Image Ego - Image Alter Ego ~ Color Experienced in Black & White"
I've been working on a new book for a while now (I'm embarrassed to say how long) ... the introduction of which might properly accompany this article ... as follows;
Im no psychologist nor do I believe I need to be one to state with confidence, we are affected by colors.
What is a color anyway? The cold hard meaning of color ... "the property possessed by an object of producing different sensations on the eye as a result of the way the object reflects or emits light
Well then, what is light ? The cold hard meaning of light is the natural agent that stimulates sight and makes things visible
That which we usually refer to as light, is also known as white light - the natural, visible energy emitted by our sun. Its actually made up of the so-called colors of the rainbow or the spectrum. Travelling at its normal speed of 186,000 miles per second through space (a vacuum), light is essentially white, which is confusing because, white light is actually all of the spectrum, or rainbow colors combined! Thats red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. If you think thats confusing, consider black , which by scientific definition, is the absence of color.
Dont believe it?
Next time youre in a room, at night, with no lamps or other room lighting, try and identify the colors of the clothing in your closet; and, to keep you from cheating, if you insist on fooling me (yourself as well) by feeling the fabric of a sweater you know to be red and saying no problem this is my red sweater, try it with a new box of crayons ... even in that meager eight-crayon box, dump the crayons out, mix them around with your hands and see how many you properly identify.
OK ... optics lesson over ... for now.
The cover design (for the moment) ...
To demonstrate how color and the absence of color affects image impact, appearance and feeling, I'll include some pages from the book (as it is at the moment).
But ... you decide.
Single, subsequent images will be black and white images that began as full color.
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1) Double Page Spread from the book. All Rights Reserved
2) A yellow rose by any other color ... would be distinctly different in feeling.
3) Double Page Spread
4) Double Page Spread
5) The leading lines of the fence rails compel the viewer to "walk" in to the space implied beyond what the image frame actually reveals. Although I shot this on a late, sunny afternoon, the absence of color gives a sense of loneliness and isolation.
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Im no psychologist nor do I believe I need to be one in order to state with confidence, we are affected by colors.