Theory Notes- Dancers

Magenta, Cyan, Yellow filter in photography

In photography we talk about finishing in terms of white light. White light is made up of red, green and blue lights overlapping each other. Along with overlapping all three color and creating white light, when just two colors overlap they create; Magenta, cyan, and yellow.

The combinations 

Red and Green makes Yellow

Blue and Red makes Magenta

Blue and Green make Cyan

Each primary color- Red, Blue and Green each have a compliment that then produces white light. 

The combinations of the compliments are;

Red and Cyan

Blue and Yellow 

Green and Magenta

Filter-substances that absorb light.

Lets say you see a red object, that object is red because it is absorbing blue and green light and the red light is the only part that reflects to you. 

In photography filters are used in a way where the primary or secondary colors absorb their complimentary color and reflect the others. 

Filers

-pass through their own color of light 

-absorb their complimentary color. 

This diagram is an example of how each color produces the white light and how two primary colors combine and make secondary colors.