Color Wheel (aka Primary Colors, almost!) by taffy

Color Wheel (aka Primary Colors, almost!)

I was at the park and noticed the perfect lineup of green, blue, and red, with a little white in the corner. I only had my iPhone, so I snapped the photo, imported it into Aperture to crop out a few extraneous things. Then imported it to an iPad app that allows me to use selective coloring. Imported it back to Aperture to fine-tune the brightness and this is what I ended up with. Artistically, not that great, but just the unexpected lineup of the three primary colors I thought was fun (til it was pointed out green didn't 'fit' for primary colors -- oh duh!!).
Fabulous colors! Wonderfully spotted and captured, Taffy!
April 16th, 2013  
wow, when i first saw this i thought it was toys set up to be photographed. great eye!
April 16th, 2013  
well, your iphone has handled it perfectly. great spot and nice shot!
April 16th, 2013  
Oh that's awesome! It's the perfect primary colour find!
April 16th, 2013  
Great colours, perfectly lined up you!
April 16th, 2013  
Stunning colors !!!!
April 16th, 2013  
Wow, what a great find and great shot of these amazing intense colors!
April 16th, 2013  
Stunning colors!
April 16th, 2013  
It was good of them all to line up like that :p Love those brilliant colours. Your processing did a great job :)
April 16th, 2013  
Great capture of colours!!
April 16th, 2013  
Well spotted! What a great shot!
April 16th, 2013  
amazing composition and love those vibrant colors! cool shot!
April 16th, 2013  
@wind_of_the_sothern_sea @steampowered @carolmw @kazlamont @cnlane @sjouk @jodimuli @kwind @westcoastwallis @photodude @pflaume
Thank you so much! This really was a case of 'spotting' it and then snapping. I've noticed since then that without the blue car, it's really nothing. In hindsight, I can't believe how lucky I was that the blue car parked exactly as it did at the exact moment I looked over at a very common sight here. The red dumpster has been there for weeks since a water heater exploded in a six flat (no one was hurt, thankfully), but our house -- a block away -- shook!
April 16th, 2013  
Kim
What a fun find! Striking colors.
April 16th, 2013  
@kimshots Thanks Kim!
April 16th, 2013  
So striking... seems like you did a lot of 'fiddling' but the end result was worth it!
April 16th, 2013  
Extraordinary coincidence made a great photo :)
April 16th, 2013  
It's certainly eye-catching! Great find.
April 16th, 2013  
Fabulous colours. Sadly green isn't a primary colour.
April 16th, 2013  
@jackie8 @dreamatrix @jesperani @busylady
Thanks for visiting! Jackie, it's ironic, but after all the fiddling, when I put the original and edited ones next to each other, the main thing is I cropped out the tail end of a car on the right. So, a lot of fiddling for not much happening.
@busylady Judith -- duh!! I can't believe in my excitement of the three colors looking so great, I totally overlooked that I needed a yellow fountain, not a green one!! So, I changed the title since I don't know how to do selective coloring and change the green to yellow. Thanks for the good catch!
April 16th, 2013  
So vibrant and cool. Great spotting and shot, Taffy!!
April 16th, 2013  
Wow. Great comp and overwhelming colors. Love this pic!
April 16th, 2013  
Wow, love the vibrant colours!
April 16th, 2013  
Wonderful color lineup! Well spotted!
April 17th, 2013  
@jankoos @danitech @stimuloog @amandal Many thanks -- it was fun to 'find' this just down the street.
April 18th, 2013  
love it! Great composition. (I love the green)
April 18th, 2013  
You could call it 'Color Wheel' that way you have the two primary colors and the one secondary color covered. Nice line up and good catch! And wow- I'm impressed with all that importing and processing!
April 18th, 2013  
Nice find! great comp
April 18th, 2013  
@olivetreeann Thanks Ann -- a brilliant idea you'll notice I have now used!
April 19th, 2013  
@colie Thanks Colie!
April 19th, 2013  
@eyesmile Thanks for the kind comment!
April 19th, 2013  
Feels very Marimekko-ish. And they make oodles selling their images -- must mean your photo is very sellable!
April 19th, 2013  
@taffy I am glad to have helped!
April 19th, 2013  
@jyokota Mmmm...sellable? That would be a step beyond 'viewable', right?
@olivetreeann I thought it was a great idea! I love that the site changes the title automatically on everything!
April 19th, 2013  
Oh very cool!! My first instinct was "Huh? What is she going for here?" Then I read the description and was instantly going "OH Cool!" haha Nice one :)
April 26th, 2013  
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