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I have to thank my mentor and friend Steve for the idea for this photo. As you may not know, i am partially color blind. It really pisses me off at times, then i remember that what having weak color vision does for me is train me to look at scenes not from the perspective of color but content shape and form to name a few. I owned a one hour photo studio for many years, When good photographers brought a photos into my shop, i could tell right away if they were brought up in the color camp or the black and white camp. What little color i shot, i shot as a black and white logic. Black and White camp photographers, more often than not create the best color photos, because color becomes complimentary to other more key elements of the shot such and form. Not being able to see all the colors still pisses me off though.

What Steve said reminded me about was, that it is thought that Van Goug and Monnet??? i think it is Monnet that founded pointillism. What is thought is that they drew what they saw. In the case of Van Goug, he must of been pretty crazy! In the case of pointillism, i can relate, if i take of my glasses and draw with dots, i would create pointillism. So i think the founder was nearsighted

This shot is a metaphor for how i see color. It is not an attempt to capture it exactly as i see color. I see more colors than presented here. What i did that was interesting with this shot, was to take all 8 primary and secondary colors and remove all the color from the scene to create a black and white scene. I then moved the colors strongly over for each one separately. Those colors i could see i kept, those i could not i left black and white. What you see is what is left of my palette with a bunch of artistic interpretation. But in a strong way this is how i see color.

I have had to do the same thing with my jewelry. One of the main reasons i do not work with precious stones is i can not get a good handle on the color. My jewelry is designed from a black and white perspective.

Part II of the series can be found here

Description
I have to thank my mentor and friend Steve for the idea for this photo. As you may not know, i am partially color blind. It really pisses me off at times, then i remember that what having weak color vision does for me is train me to look at scenes not from the perspective of color but content shape and form to name a few. I owned a one hour photo studio for many years, When good photographers brought a photos into my shop, i could tell right away if they were brought up in the color camp or the black and white camp. What little color i shot, i shot as a black and white logic. Black and White camp photographers, more often than not create the best color photos, because color becomes complimentary to other more key elements of the shot such and form. Not being able to see all the colors still pisses me off though.

What Steve said reminded me about was, that it is thought that Van Goug and Monnet??? i think it is Monnet that founded pointillism. What is thought is that they drew what they saw. In the case of Van Goug, he must of been pretty crazy! In the case of pointillism, i can relate, if i take of my glasses and draw with dots, i would create pointillism. So i think the founder was nearsighted

This shot is a metaphor for how i see color. It is not an attempt to capture it exactly as i see color. I see more colors than presented here. What i did that was interesting with this shot, was to take all 8 primary and secondary colors and remove all the color from the scene to create a black and white scene. I then moved the colors strongly over for each one separately. Those colors i could see i kept, those i could not i left black and white. What you see is what is left of my palette with a bunch of artistic interpretation. But in a strong way this is how i see color.

I have had to do the same thing with my jewelry. One of the main reasons i do not work with precious stones is i can not get a good handle on the color. My jewelry is designed from a black and white perspective.

Part II of the series can be found here