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Complementary Color Text & Photography © Ron Day Color is powerful. It is linked to our behavior and emotions, and tests have shown it affects the subconscious mind. The careful use of color in photography can create striking images with added impact. Red, yellow and blue are the primary colors. All other colors can be mixed from them. The secondary colors — green, purple and orange — are each made with equal parts of two primary colors. On the Wheel of Colors, the secondary colors and primary colors lying opposite, one to the other, are known as complementary colors due to the unusual visual effect they create when placed together.
A smaller amount of red, yellow or orange used with a larger portion of their respective complementary color tends to work best. Try it. An orange butterfly looks great against a blue sky. A purple thistle blossom accompanied by a yellow Sulphur butterfly just seems to glow. And, small red berries on lush green foliage are always eye-catching.
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