{"id":195,"date":"2007-01-24T08:13:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-24T08:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=195"},"modified":"2012-06-22T12:58:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T05:58:35","slug":"complementary-inspirations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2007\/01\/complementary-inspirations\/","title":{"rendered":"Complementary Inspirations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image198\" style=\"width: 179px; height: 228px;\" title=\"compspaulkeates.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/compspaulkeates.jpg\" alt=\"compspaulkeates.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>Complementary colors do not have to be exact opposites to add hue contrast to a composition.<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbase.com\/cslr_challenge\/cslr09_exhibition\">complementary colors exhibition gallery<\/a>\u00a0is not that strict about perfect complements. It doesn&#8217;t matter whether orange or yellow is the opposite of blue. Color contrast makes this photo a winner. <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image200\" style=\"width: 148px; height: 185px;\" title=\"dpchallenge2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/dpchallenge2.jpg\" alt=\"dpchallenge2.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The rules are tougher, and follow traditional color theory, in <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/photos3.flickr.com\/3835974_23c97af9f4_m.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/complementarycolors\/&amp;h=180&amp;w=240&amp;sz=5&amp;hl=en&amp;start=21&amp;tbnid=c_MULSPmTpkJoM:&amp;tbnh=83&amp;tbnw=110&amp;prev=\/images%3Fq%3Dcomplementary%2Bcolors%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DISO-8859-1%26sa%3DN\">Flickr&#8217;s complementary colors photo collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And as you can see from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpchallenge.com\/challenge_results.php?CHALLENGE_ID=484&amp;page=1\">digital photo challenge<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; complementary means different things to different people.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to all of you who sent in suggestions for <a href=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-admin\/post.php?action=edit&amp;post=184\">Elise&#8217;s complementary colorway.<\/a> The deadline for submitting your ideas is Friday. \u00a0_________________________________<\/p>\n<p>I am taking\u00a0a few\u00a0weeks off from tutorials so folks can catch up if they\u00a0want to and I can travel to Tucson for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colored-stone.com\/tsg\/\">Gem and Mineral Show<\/a>. In the meantime I&#8217;m\u00a0planning\u00a0to post reviews on Mondays going over some of the key concepts we&#8217;ve covered up &#8217;til now.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to find lots of photo ops in Tucson.\u00a0The theme will be complementary colors &#8211; my own photo challenge!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complementary colors do not have to be exact opposites to add hue contrast to a composition. This complementary colors exhibition gallery\u00a0is not that strict about perfect complements. It doesn&#8217;t matter whether orange or yellow is the opposite of blue. Color contrast makes this photo a winner. The rules are tougher, and follow traditional color theory, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":7007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}