great!

http://pascal.fellonneau.free.fr/EnglishVersion/Candidates/index.html

inspiration, kinda sexy, dynamic tone/color use on the body:

bill henson here

Midterm Proposal

I have always liked to experience events where there is always a story to tell through photographs. I enjoy documentaries, stories where there are so much to see and learn about society, such as violence, poverty, intuitional witnesses and family disintegration. Therefore I have chosen the idea of going to a tattoo studio to photograph the artists and also their art. The reason that I decided to do this project is because one of my classmates has tattoos all over his body and I have always believed that there is a strong definition behind their tattoos symbolizing their personality, belief and struggles about life.

Composition strategies

I am trying to approach symmetrical and asymmetrical balanced images depending on the silhouette postures or posture. I won’t probably use straight or horizon lines just because the objects are going to be human bodies. I will be taking the image using narrow and wide depth of field, it depends on the effect that I would like to project in the photo. There would be a different vantage point, how I said before it depends what is my focus point in the photo. There are not going to be borders in my prints.

Quality of light

I would like to work with natural light giving a better color tonality; I also want to put effects of soft shadows in the photos trying to highlight the silhouette of the image.

Color Theory

I would love to get a very strong diversity of color tonalities of the artist’s tattoos and their work. I am also thinking to blur the background sometimes to highlight the tones.  

                                                                                                     

photographers we looked at in class today

Here are some links to the websites of and info about the photographers Lisa mentioned and discussed in class today

http://www.vivianesassen.com/

http://jakestangel.com/

http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artist.php?art_name=Uta%20Barth

http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/story/dicorcia.html

http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/438

http://sarahhobbs.net/home.html

http://www.manhattanrarebooks-art.com/ruscha.htm

http://www.edruscha.com/

"Blue" paper

Here are the questions you should address in your three page paper for next week:

1. Moments where blue is used in subtle and obvious ways, what do these uses communicate (discuss three examples)?

2. What colors set up a transition to blue? What colors follow the end of a blue sequence? What tension/energy/ideas do these juxtapositions create?

3. When is blue being used emotionally? Symbolically?

4. Does blue ever represent largely different emotions at different times? Or is it a reliable and consistent signifier of similar ideas?

Proposal

My idea for the midterm was an idea that I've had with me since last semester.  I was planning on making it my final project for this class, but I figured making it my midterm project would be just as good.  I got the idea from Photo 1.  My teacher had given us an assignment entitled "Out on the Street".  For this assignment we had to go around and take pictures of people on the street, but in order to get these pictures we had to make sure to approach them and ask them if they wouldn't mind their picture being taken or not.  It was an assignment that would get us to be comfortable in our art and get used to approaching people and stepping out of the comfort zone that beginning photographers usually put themselves in.  It was probably one of my favorite assignments in that class and one of the ones I did the best on.  My prints were good and everyone seemed to like them since I got lots of positive and enthusiastic feedback on them.

My teacher brought it up to me after the class critique of that assignment and told me how I am a really good street photographer and how I showed that I really moved away from what I was comfortable with and broadened my horizons.  This was my first stab at street photography and because of that project I really grew to like it. She saw this and suggested I make it either my final or midterm in color photo.  She said that maybe it would translate even better and have more meaning with color added to the picture because with color you get so much more information, so that's what I plan on doing for the midterm.  I want to take another shot at street portraiture photography and see how big of a difference it really is from when I did it in black and white.

Strategies for this project is close to none.  I plan to just go out and shoot, asking people if I can take their picture and have them either look at the camera or look off into the distance, maybe even ask them to go back and do whatever they were doing before I approached them.  There isn't too much technicality that will go into taking my pictures.  Though it sounds kind of simple, I'll make sure that it won't just be point and shoot.  I will line the person up in the frame a certain way and try my best to make sure that each picture I take is consistent throughout.  I hope to achieve repetition in how my pictures look.  Either they will all be off-centered a certain way, they will all be from the chest up, or they will be centered perfectly. I hope to shoot each picture in a way that would make the prints look visually appealing when presented.

I will be using available light when photographing.  Whether it be daylight when shooting outside or fluorescent light when I am shooting in a building, I won't toy too much with my lighting situations.  I will just use whatever is given to me.

I have made the decision to shoot in the Wicker Park area which is where I shot this assignment before in black and white.  I found many, many people dressed in quirky, odd colors.  I think it is because that area is filled with many artsy people.  And now I hope to find those same bright, vibrant color combinations when I go to photograph this time around.  I will take pictures of people whoever I find interesting or whoever intrigue me by what they are wearing.  People that pop out because of bright colors or maybe even dull color combinations are what I will be showing in my pictures.

Proposal

Project Idea

Throughout my time at Columbia this past year I have been enduring a great deal of stress and anxiety. My problems with procrastination just add to the problem. It’s eating me up inside, and every day I’m feeling a great inner-tension. I want to attempt to explore this tension that is making my insides wrap around each other.

In this exploration I will channel my inner unrest into a series of still lives. These still lives will consist of normal objects, sometimes including human interaction with them. But, through careful selection, I’ll be deliberately placing my objects into the still life in order for them to interact in a way to recreate this terrible tension and anxiety. I’ve had a photograph I’ve wanted to take for a while in mind; a cut of meat which is being cut with a steak knife while on top of somebodies hand, this will take place on top of a bright yellow surface. I do have some concerns/questions with this project. I’m worried I will run out of ideas to recreate this tension out of. Also, are we limited to shooting on a 35mm film format?

Compositional Strategies

I will approach my images using mainly symmetrical balance and other times no balance at all in order to create an elevated sense of tension between objects. Deep DOF, most photos will be shot straight on at the subject. I will be using tight compositions in order to allow the subject to fill most of the frame. I feel like I can’t be that specific in this area of my proposal, because I can use many different compositional strategies throughout this project as long a they lend themselves to the particular photograph. I do understand that I will also be trying to create a common aesthetic throughout the series.

Quality of Light

Photographs will be shot using a high powered, Vivitar 285hv flash, mounted my cameras hot shoe. This method of using light will give the images more contrast and make them more confrontational.

Color Theory

I’ve been reading a bit about color psychology and along with carefully choosing my objects for these still lifes, I will carefully shoes what colors interact within the objects and the background. I spy a lot of yellow.

Ellyce's Midterm Proposal

First I would like to say that I will not be in class today, but I hope it goes well for everyone present.

Now on to my proposal.

My hopes for my midterm project are simple.  I would like to photograph my next door neighbors, their relationship with each other and with color.  I will use only available light from the windows as well as the lighting in their home.  I have noticed in the time I have known them that they have a very interesting relationship with color, both as individuals and together as a couple.  The man is a nerdy Caucasian lawyer with glasses and an inhaler.  His clothing is often monochromatic, although he also often does legal observing for the Occupy Chicago movement and for this he wears a bright green ball cap.  He calls it "green hatting".  His entire persona changes when he dons his green hat and I would like to explore this.  On the flip side, his girlfriend is an African-American woman who does work with her church and also with under privileged youth.  She has an immense relationship with the color blue.  She tries to make a point to wear at least one blue thing every day, and when she's not wearing blue she will mention it numerous times in a conversation and it will make her feel less like herself.  In addition to these obvious color relationships, as a couple they have had to deal with societal views of their racial differences.  The girlfriend has spoken candidly with me about the difficulties that have arose from this divide and I hope to explore this in my images as well.

I am going to attempt to take all of my images vertically in an effort to limit what is in my frame without having to disturb the natural surroundings of their home very much.  I am not going to limit myself to a shallow or deep depth of field as that will be one of the tools I plan to use to draw attention to either their connection or separation, depending on the image at hand.  I will most likely utilize asymmetrical balance and a normal perspective.  I think I will print these images with no borders.

As I said before I will shoot using mostly available light including window light.  I hope to get a chance to shoot at cooler and warmer times of day so I can use the light as one more thing to draw distinctions between the two characters in my subject matter.  I feel that I will utilize generally soft light though it may have some directional tendencies, it will not be "directional light".

I plan to use a mostly allied color palate for the shots of the individual subjects.  For the shots with both subjects I want to incorporate in both of their "key" colors.  In addition to the blue and green, I will use black and white prominently in this project.

Midterm idea

As I said in class, for my midterm project I am thinking of doing a photographic comparison/analysis of rural, small town, life versus the fast paced urban life of Chicago. Moving from an extremely small town to Chicago was major culture shock (in a good way) for me and I constantly find myself comparing things here to how they were where I grew up. I would like to do a comparison of some things such as the main street in my town versus a main street (Michigan Ave) in Chicago. I would also like to do comparisons that aren’t so obvious. I’m still working on compiling a list. I think it’s interesting how many similarities and differences there are between city and rural life; the similarities aren’t so much downtown, but in the neighborhood I live in. I live northwest of downtown in the neighborhood of Ravenswood. It’s a much different environment than downtown, but still the city experience. It is much different than I expected it to be, living in Chicago. When I used to think of Chicago I would simply picture the skyline and thought that everything in or around the loop was all there was to the city, but now I know much differently. With my project I feel like I would need to decide if I’m going to focus on life downtown, or in my neighborhood. I feel like in my neighborhood would be best because it’s where I live and I’m comparing it to where I used to live, but downtown would have a more dramatic contrast. However, I think focusing on the little details (such as spacing between houses, things like that) of the difference of my neighborhood and where I come from would help me to narrow and focus the project. This is one of my worries of this idea for my project. I feel like I have so many ideas of things that could use for comparison, that I’m not sure if I would get the message across because it’s so broad.

For this project I would want my shooting to be done under overcast, flat light. I feel this would give the same feeling to all of the images and not allow for any in one place or the other to “outshine” the other images with dramatic light. Flat even light is the easiest to control and have constant, and in a project where a comparison is being made I think it’s important to have that constant. I also tend to like images that are a little more flat and focus on things that aren’t super flashy or dramatic. I tend to be drawn to more mundane or worn-down things, and I think flat light goes well with that idea.

I’m not quite sure how I will approach this assignment technically; but, however I do it I would need to keep it the same for both places that I’m shooting. I usually tend to use shallow depth of field in my images, however if I’m going to be shooting buildings, streets, or landscapes in this project I will have to use a deeper depth of field. I tend to have my images balanced asymmetrically, and would like to continue that with this project. It might be harder to have direct comparisons this way, but I feel it will be visually more interesting and could add something to the work conceptually.

Color theory wise, I’m thinking that I would try to ally the colors to each other within the two different places. With the flat light the colors should remain fairly constant saturation wise, and I would like to try to have them all connect and feel cohesive through color, rather than having them be a stark contrast to each other.

All of this is a fairly rough draft of some ideas I’m having. I would really like to hear your guys’ feedback and get some ideas to focus my project further, or figure out if I should change it completely. Narrowing it down is my main concern with it. I feel like I tend to have ideas that are too broad to be compressed into the project, get the correct message across, and feel cohesive.

My midterm...maybe...

            For my midterm project I would like to shoot a set of photos that resemble makeup ads you would see in a magazine. It’s been such a cold and dreary beginning of spring so I want to shoot really bright and colorful makeup. I want my inspiration to be nature-inspired and I was thinking of including flowers into the series- perhaps a particular flower corresponding to the model’s makeup. The good thing about this project is that I get to shoot people, which is what I do, but I’m also shooting the flowers which is good practice because I don’t normally shoot normal objects and I can work on composition. The only thing that I worry about is finding people to model, and managing time and work from my other classes. If I don’t find people within a couple of days, my whole project could change.

            If I had to change my project, other ideas could include some other makeup theme, or I was thinking of doing pictures of babies and children. I have a baby niece and nephew, and I would really like to take some photo of them. They’re both young and have tons of colorful clothes and toys, so the pictures could be interesting and cute. I love landscapes, and since this is my first year in Chicago, I still have tons of exploring to do, so I can just shoot locations and possibly scout out areas for future photo shoots. I just need to shoot a lot in general.

            I want to work more on composition in my photos. Due to laziness, I sometimes tend to take pictures from the same position and eye-level all the time. So for this project I really want to work on moving around my subject and getting a really awesome angles and composition. It’s hard to say where I want my subjects to be placed in my photo, I can them see them centered or off-center. I want to use my 50mm macro lens so I can really get close to my subjects and capture great detail, because I’m drawn to texture in photos.

            Lighting is always a problem for me. I know that color film captures better color and contrast when shot on a bright and sunny day. And the weather has been awful. I always try to go outside and shoot, but it’s usually dark and cloudy and my photos get really “flat” looking. It doesn’t seem to be getting warm outside anytime soon and I would hate to shoot people outside. Although a model has to do whatever for a job, I am always thinking of making them comfortable to get the best photos, and modeling in cold snowy weather isn’t pleasant for anyone. If the weather isn’t on my side, again, I’ll have to resort to shooting indoors. Shooting indoors and controlling light is always tough.

            For these photos I see myself mainly sticking to an analogous color theme. Most of the time it’s typical for makeup ads to really focus in on one main color. Other than analogous, other color theories I respond to are complementary colors, and black/white/and a color. I want the photos to be as vibrant and “popping” as much as they can be to create stunning photos.

            

        At the risk of sounding too pretentious or farfetched, please bear with me. I would like to take a series of 5 to 10 photos. All of the photos being either planned scenes, portraits, or landscapes that all are seemingly arbitrarily captioned to either (I can't decide just yet) classic, immediately recognizable, or entirely random and unrecognizable quotes to movies. The idea is to correlate a caption that at first glance has nothing to do with the assigned photo, and create something totally new and different from what either the photo or caption would singlehandedly convey. It is an exercise in free association, and an exercise in creating something new from a previously contextualized notion that a color, nor the captioned quote alone can create.

       While I have some ideas kicking around in my head, I don't want to limit myself to just those that I have at the moment. The last thing I want to do is create a series of irrelevant photos with even more ridiculously off-topic captions from movies that have nothing to with the color or subjet of the photo. The main idea is to make something that neither color or subject matter makes individually, and make a third product that suggests something entirely new.
     
        As far as color theory is concerned, I have a number of examples in my head. Ideally, I would like it to be as spontaneous as possible. The intention is to make something whimsical and dreamy out of something that is entirely tangible and realistic to the viewer, that would be other wise be an in-conceived notion of obviousness and unoriginality.  From what I do have kicking around in my head now, I can anticipate that the color used with the "appropriate" caption will create something more interesting than either of the two could alone speak of. 

Maddie's Midterm Proposal

For my midterm project I plan on sticking with my two favorite subjects, decay/ abandonment and graffiti. However this project will be something entirely different than I'm used to because I don't normally set a theme to the images I take. I make images based on appealing composition, and these will be based on criteria. The two common themes I am planning on picking from are either time of day, or underlying sense of travel or place. My innitical concept was to illistarate the concept of transportation. The decay of old towns, their railways in particular fasinate me. With trains also than comes the graffiti aspect. The subjects of this set of images if I followed this theme would include images of train tracks, cars, boats, peoples feet/ a persons feet. My second theme idea would be the passage of time. Photographing beautifully composed images at different images at either the same time of day ( sunrise/ or sunset) or illistrating the passage of time by doing some sort of lighting gradient throughout the images. I think the last option for theme sounds most appealing, not only because the coloring form those times of day are beautiful, but also the warm casts that will be added to the images will show beauty within something most people do not find beautiful.

Midterm Proposal

I am very intrigued with street photography and as a photographer I think we often get too preoccupied with looking forward that we don’t take the time to look up or down. I’ve been playing with an intriguing idea for a while that I’ve wanted to pursue and this is photographing people’s shoes. Although shooting people’s feet may sound a bit unusual, I have a feeling that this project idea has potential for some fascinating results.

You can tell a lot about a person by looking at their shoes. Not only style and personality, but also the adventure of what was, where they have been, things that still linger waiting to be re-discovered. My aim is to capture the wear and tear, the memories and the hidden story behind every step. In order to do this I will be riding the El train and shooting from one spot while aiming at the shoes directly in front of me. This way I will be allowing the people to tell the story instead of intentionally searching for it.

Since consistency plays an important role in this execution, I will make sure all the shots are around the same focal length with the same framing and have the same landscape orientation. Therefore when all the images are put together, the centrality of the theme will stand out.

Lindsay Powell's Midterm Proposal

Project Idea:

For my midterm I plan to recreate street/caution signs with people. I am going to place people in outfits/situations that will recreate some form of commonly known sign. For example: Animal Crossing, for which I have a hat that is a face of a moose in antlers that I plan to put on a friend and photography them crossing a road-hopefully a more green suburban road and not the city. Another example is Caution floor slippery when wet, in which I will make the subject wear bright yellow like the sign and photograph them slipping or mid slip if I can get enough light to do a fast shutter speed.

I plan to use well enough known signs that people can easily recognize and even have fun guessing which one is which. I am trying to stick to only American signs but I have to admit I wish I could do the London Underground’s(train) “Mind the Gap.” I am a little worried about making the message clear as possible, but also having some fun with it. Another idea I want to pursue is dead end with the use of caution tape around a fake crime scene. Not sure if I want to have a person for a dead body though or do a chalk outline.

Compositional Strategies:

I think for this project I am going to do a mix of compositional strategies. Using both horizontal and vertical shots depend on what will look best for the shot. For example the animal crossing and dead end photos will most like be horizontal, while for the caution I might keep it vertical to make it more like the sign I am mimicking. I will most like shoot the photos head on but some might require including more of a background to explain the sign.

Quality of Light:

I think the light will slightly change photo-to-photo depending on what will look better. But I think most will have direct bright light to make the photos look brighter. I am going to try to plan for sunny days, but who can ever really plan the weather in Chicago. I want to use natural light for a majority of the photos as that’s what most of the signs relate to being outside, but some like the caution sign I will shoot indoors.

Color Theory:

I plan to use bright colors for my photos to make the pop out to the viewer just like the signs are supposed to do. I want to draw attention to the subject with using the colors that are main color of the signs, which will involve mostly bright yellows, oranges, and reds. Although some photos like the animal crossing, I will focus more on the action of the animal crossing and using a natural animal brown for the clothes instead of the color of the sign.

Midterm Proposal

For my mid term project I would like to use one model and explore the idea of color using the background and their clothing. I was thinking of going to a few different simple locations and exploring color pop. I want my photos to be relatively simple except for the clothing. I don’t want the background to be too distracting. But at the same time I want to make sure it adds to the photograph. I want it to have a purpose even if it just to make the color of the clothing pop.

When thinking about my project compositionally a million different ideas come to mind. One thing I know for sure is that none of my photos are going to be completely symmetrical. I don’t plan on having my subject in the center of the frame for any of the photos. I want to play around with vantage point. I want some of my photographs to be eye level with my model and others to be from birds eye and some from worms eye. I don’t plan on putting any borders around my prints. Most of my photos will be relatively close to my model. I don’t plan on taking any extremely far away. I am going to play around with having it be full body and some cropped.

All of my photographs are going to be taken outside. I am therefore going to use natural light and maybe a reflector of some sort. I want to hopefully take them at some point right around 10 or 2 so that the color will be slightly warm. I would like to take them on a sunny day. I don’t want there to be too many hard shadows. I would like it to have a overall soft feel, besides the pop of color.

My color theory is to match the clothing to create color harmonies. Not only with one another but also with the background. I want the clothing to do a lot of the talking along with my models poses or expressions. I don’t want the color of the background to be too distracting. I want it to work with the clothing. I don’t have one specific color harmony I plan on working with. I want to explore many of them and when I edit through my film, I will see which ones translate the best. 

Ok I'm really having a hard time deciding between three different ideas I have. So, since we're supposed to comment on everyone's posts, it would be greatly appreciated if you guys would go ahead and tell me which of these sucks and which I should go through with.

Ok #1
I was looking at some of Richard Mosse's photographs of the postwar ruins in Yugoslavia and was really captivated by this one photograph of a blown up minivan. The tones in the picture were really orange which helped to highlight the "destruction" theme of the photo. This got me thinking about how color photography can especially be helpful in composing images like these.
I think it would be cool to do a series on destruction and decay. In a city like Chicago, there are so many different areas, old and new, that could give me something interesting to photograph. But not only are there things around the streets to take pictures of, I could also focus on different opinions of destruction. For example, some might think getting a tattoo or piercing is destroying your body. Basically, this project would allow me to get really conceptual, so I don't think I'd have a hard time using 5 rolls.

My second idea came to me the other day while I was getting poured down on on the way to work. I saw massive puddles with cool reflections and interesting trails of water down the sides of buildings. So I thought it might be interesting for water to be the subject of my series. I could take pictures of the city in the rain, people's reactions to the weather, and also set up scenes in my own room with water, like the effect it has on ink, washing dishes....stuff like that.
The problem I see with this project is that I would get really lucky and it would never rain. Or if it did rain, and I ruined my camera in the weather. (Luckily I just bought a $30 umbrella.)
But I think if it goes the way I'm picturing it, these pictures could turn out really cool. I would probably intentionally print them with a blue color cast for that cool temperature feeling, and I'd try to get really zoomed in vantage points for a few in the rain.

Ok last one, I swear. I was again looking through my Aperture magazine and saw Hans-Peter Feldmann's series called "A Paradise of the Ordinary." In this series, Feldmann has either collected a group of objects and photographed each of them separately. They're all the same subject matter, but a different variation. For example, he takes a bunch of photographs of single strawberries, but then displays them all together so that the viewer can see their originalities/aspects that set them apart.
I really liked this idea of comparing things of the same subject. I probably wouldn't collect objects, because that would basically be copying his series, but I think it could be cool to compare certain physical attributes of people, or areas around the city like different gas stations or grocery stores. For each subject, I'd probably choose a certain point of view and stick with it for every photograph of the thing so that you are really able to compare each of the same thing. As far as color theory goes, I'm not sure yet, I think it would depend on what I was photographing.

Alright I'm done. Sorry to make you read a novel, but I need heeeeeeelllllpppp choosing so hopefully you've made it to the end of this post. :)

Midterm Project Proposal

I love fashion photography but with a sick twist. For my midterm I would really like to do high fashion in grudge, dark situations. I would have a few different models dressed in high fashion, like in magazines, but in a variety of dirty places. I will use different vantage points, mostly looking up or down on the subject. Some will have a short depth of field but most will be narrow. I plan on having little to no boarders for my final images so the subject and background pop out of the frame. The lighting for these pictures will depend on the locations I pick but will mostly be eerie and dark. I will use mixed lighting from fluorescent, tungsten and street lights. I will test out some with my flash as well. I plan on most of my images being taken during dawn and dusk but may use the sunlight for a few. I want to stay away from bright colors, only using dull, true colors such as red and black. I may play around with how I print my images possibly making them darker or adding a blue tint to get the eerie effect.

Project Proposal

      I was planning on doing a series on the CTA trains, it sounds a little cliche and unoriginal but I think I will be able to take interesting photos on this concept.  I would take pictures of the spaces themselves, portraits of people riding or waiting for the train, and pictures of every day things that are seen on the CTA such as garbage.  I also plan on ordering the series chronologically and the process of taking the train.
      The lighting of these pictures will vary depending on the surrounding and the composition of that certain photograph.  For half of the pictures I want to them to have a very eerie or creepy look to them.  For these I will most likely shoot at the underground train stops where the lighting is very flat and they use a lot of mixed lighting from flourescent and tungsten lights.  The other half of the pictures will be taken with a very calming natural look, these will be shot in the late afternoons of sunny days.  These pictures will be taken on the train and at the outside train stops when there is very harsh lighting and shadows.
      A majority of the photographs will probably have very shallow depth of field with the exception of a few pictures of the overall space of the train or train stops.
      I know this project seems like it would be overly used, I have other ideas but they do not seem nearly as challenging and wouldn't involve as many technical skills.

My Project Proposal

For my midterm I really would love to work with bokeh photography. For those who do not know what bokeh is, it is blurred and out of focus light (Example above). I want to use different types of colored lighting to get a gorgeous effect for a nice color scheme. I have never worked with bokeh before, but it always interested me. So this might be difficult to achieve because my lack of knowledge, but I am willing to research. My fears are that the film may not come out well since my lack of knowledge on bokeh, but this project seems simple and gives me a lot of opportunity to learn.

I haven’t pin pointed exactly what compositional strategies I want to work with. One thing I do know is when working with bokeh that the light is blurred, the depth of field will be shallow. If the light was in focus I would just a photograph and a light source, but instead the light creates a shape. I want to be decently close to my light sources so I can get a good amount of detail in the light. The further I zoom into the light it does not show up as well. But it also depends on my aperture because aperture creates the shallow depth. I want to also experiment with shape of the light. I want to use hearts, stars, and other effects to create a mood.

For quality of light I hope to have direct light with shadows. I plan to shoot all of my photos at night for the light to be stronger and brighter. I want to work with christmas lights, stop lights, any type of colored lights.

For color strategy, my favorite color schemes I have worked with so far have been complementary colors and allied colors. Depending how many light sources I have to create the bokeh effect, I want to experiment more with allied colors. I also want to expand with our assignment on complementary colors. I think using complementary colors would be more interesting because I can go through the whole color wheel and use every complement on the wheel.