Good or bad use of colour is one of the biggest factors in why some photographic work looks amateurish, and some looks stunning. Learning how to use, control and edit colour is a vital part of learning colour photography. A lot of that is down to what you choose to put in the frame, but also there’s a large influence from how the colours are tweaked in post production. 

 

So Jamie Windsor will take you through 8 quick tips, tricks, techniques and ideas for shooting and editing that will hopefully help you create photographs that use colour well. 

00:00​ - Introduction
00:55​ - Make Colour a Major Subject
02:49​ - Be Abstract
03:44​ - Be Surreal
05:44​ - Be Selective (colour theory)
08:50​ - Use Coloured Lighting
09:33​ - Understand that Colour Perception is Relative
10:24​ - Know Your Software (colour calibration tutorial)
22:43​ - Edit in the Right Conditions
23:46​ - Squarespace advert
25:01​ - Outro