Colour Variations

My garden is the best place for taking photos of my dolls. Natural lighting (on a not-so soggy Yorkshire day) provides the perfect exposure.

Looking for orangey hues to contrast the blue garment, but because it's still basically Winter, there's not much bloomage in bright colours. Mostly greens and a couple snowdrops pokin' through.

Light on dark - on mid-tone background. Striking and high contrast.

Annoyed by those little hairs all over her dress! The downfall of fibre hair rather than woven wool strands is that fibre hair has a tendency to fuzz (making it quite noisy where a sleek strand would not detract focus as much) and it also makes a mess.

Light on mid-tones.

Bamboo throne. Her hair and skin is washed out by the white values in the bamboo shoots. Her hair should be the lightest value in the frame but it recedes back and doesn't jump out as far because there is a lack of dark value to juxtapose it and make it POP. The background is mostly just mid-tones so there's nothing to 

Left: Light on dark on light. The reds are too dark and there is too much contrast, making a really sharp and painful palette. They don't harmonise. Red and blue don't sit in a relationship on the colour wheel, if only the red was a little more orange in hue then the colours would be opposites and make a more pleasing tone.

Right: Struggling to decode this one... the yellow is very strong and intense, but it's light. Does that make it a dark or light value? Either way, the yellow is too intense and draws attention away from the doll, who should be the focal point.

  

Light on light.

Washed out by the amount of light in this image! There are very few mid-tones to balance out.