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Analogous and complementary alpine color palettes to keep developing your editing style! With @timbenzzz - Winner Best the Week 25 at #nomadict 2024 / “My passion for photography comes from a deep-seated desire to capture moments visually appealingly. I want to tell stories with my pictures and inspire others to explore nature and discover its beautiful facets for themselves. For this goal, I like to rely on color, as the hues you use can help you enhance the storytelling qualities of your artwork. In this series, you can find a mix of images featuring mainly alpine green, muted blues, and earthy oranges.
If you look closely at images one, three, five, seven, and nine in this series, you will see similar greens. I like my greens to transmit the essence of a tranquil and alpine landscape.
For image one, for example, I was looking for a color palette that would balance the earthy greens with the colder blues from Zermatt. Below, I explain this palette so you can draw some inspiration from it, especially if you are after content that aims to convey calmness, exploration, and the raw elegance of nature:
1) Image one is an analogous color palette that consists of colors that are next to each other on the color wheel:
In this case, the palette features shades of green (2f3c23, 586237) along with cool tones like slate blue-gray (637071) and soft grayish blue (ccd5dd). These colors fall within the cold spectrum of greens, blues, and blue-grays, creating a soothing visual effect. The deep charcoal (1a2324) complements these tones without introducing a contrasting color, maintaining the overall harmony.
2) Conversely, the second image uses a complementary color palette with muted tones. It combines cool, deep blues and grays (1d2021, 46413c, 466370) with warm, earthy oranges and browns (d58c52, 835237).
The contrasting warm and cool tones work together to create a balanced, visually appealing palette that evokes the feel of a sunset landscape, where the warmth of the setting sun contrasts against the colder shadows and reflections. Which color palettes do you prefer?” You can read the original article with @timbenzzz by visiting the link in our bio!