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Color has three elements – luminosity, hue, and saturation.
Luminosity describes a color’s lightness.
Hue describes a color’s temperature. (It’s the rainbow ROYGBIV.)
Saturation describes a color’s degree of neutrality.
All colors can be described as a combination of these three values.
Each of these elements offers a unique quality and type of contrast. (Think energy.)
While we see all three elements simultaneously, learning to distinguish these three elements from one another is a useful skill that will help you see more clearly and see more possibilities for enhancing your images.
Consider the transformations each element of color offers.
When highlights are lightened with luminosity, this image feels cooler and more brilliant.
When highlights are warmed with hue, the image feels hotter and more humid.
When highlights are intensified with saturation, the image feels more lush and fertile.
Each of these elements of color implies a different atmosphere, a different time of day, or perhaps even season, and, in this case, a state of plant growth. Color becomes a code for many different qualities, and so can offer you many possibilities for creative enhancement and personal expression.
The following examples will illuminate some of the possibilities and pitfalls for you.
Enjoy this collection of quotes on the color red.
"The ‘pure’ red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters’ caps, and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise, we would have no feeling toward red and its relations…"
– Robert Motherwell
"If one says ‘Red’ – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different."
– Josef Albers
"I will never know how you see red, and you will never know how I see it."
- Anne Carson
"All my life I've pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It's exactly as if I'd said, "I want Rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple" - they have no idea what I'm talking about."
– Diana Vreeland
"I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it."
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
"Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion because it's on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you've got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger, and frustration."
– Taylor Swift
If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it’s not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?
– Lady Gaga
"Bright reds - scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry - are very cheerful and youthful. There is certainly a red for everyone."
- Christian Dior
Maine has over 60 lighthouses.
While some lighthouses on islands take preparation to access, many are easily accessible.
Four of the most famous lighthouses are 15-45 minutes from Caponigro Arts, and they’re all quite different.
(Click on the images or titles to locate them on Google Maps.)
Rockland Light is accessed by walking the massive one-mile-long stone breakwater. It’s magical at sunrise, sunset, and in thick fog.
Owlshead Light is reached by a long wooden stair, just beyond the keeper’s house, because it’s perched high on a hill overlooking the Rockland harbor (including Rockland Light) and beyond to nearby islands.
Marshall Point’s light and the house are separated by a long elevated walkway over a rocky beach pointing to the surrounding islands. Made more famous by the movie Forrest Gump, it rests near Port Clyde (where you get the ferry to Monhegan Island).
Pemaquid Light towers over the magnificent slabs of granite, which are constantly tossed in wild surf, but always accessible no matter what the tide. It offers 180-degree views of the open ocean, which are stunning at both sunrise and sunset.
John Paul Caponigro, Antarctica XL
Glacial
July 15 – August 13
John Paul Caponigro, Eleanor Goldstein, Ryland West
“This exhibition presents the stunning capture of Antarctica’s glacial landscapes by noted photographer John Paul Caponigro (ME); striking Arctic evening icescapes by painter Eleanor Goldstein (NY); and ephemeral portraits of Alaska’s polar masses by photographer Ryland West (NY).”
1 – Saturday, July 15 – Opening
Works will be on display in both the gallery and the barn.
2 – Saturday, July 29, 3:30 pm – Artist’s Talks
Join us for the Artist Talks to learn of the artists’ firsthand witnessing and artistic documentation of the threatening disappearance of these majestic icy masses due to climate change.
3 – Sunday, July 30, 1 pm – Reading In The Barn
John Paul Caponigro and guests will read thematically related poetry and creative nonfiction.
4 – Sunday, July 31, 9:30 am – NPR on WLIW with Gianna Volpeg
Join us for great conversations!
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Ryland West, Knik Glacier #1
Eleanor Goldstein, Night Shadows III
I read at 43:30.
I read at 11:11.
The 2024 Camden Festival Of Poetry Is Coming!
The keynote will be Padriag O’ Tuama.
It’s free and open to the public.
2023 Camden Festival Of Poetry Highlights
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The new Photoshop 2023 non ai features are easy to overlook – but really useful!
00:00 Intro
00:20 Adjustment Presets
02:12 Making your own Adjustment Presets
04:33 Color grade with new gradients
06:15 Add point of light
06:56 New Gradients on Masks to blend layers
08:04 Remove tool in Photoshop
08:54 Contextual menu bar
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