03-13-2014, 07:48 PM
hey poyo. Try to figure out what is the environment and what is the color of light.
here's super simplified example based on the your photo
The source of light is more likely window with cool color temperature. The room is white, white is also cool color so reflected light will be cool too.
Now you have local color of skin - orange. We determined light is cool so highlight on skin will be cooler than local color.
For the shadow there's no other color to influence it besides white walls so in shadows the darker version of orange with reduced intensity will do.
If you check color wheel oranges and blues are complementary colors, what means mixing them will give as grays. Pick colors from few places on photo, you will see it's true. Lights and shadows are mostly desturated version of orange.
But, how I said it's simplified version and reality is a little more complicated. Skin don't have only one hue on whole surface and it's probably Photoshoped photo with unrealistic lights :D Try autoportraits to observe nature in purest way :)
here's super simplified example based on the your photo
The source of light is more likely window with cool color temperature. The room is white, white is also cool color so reflected light will be cool too.
Now you have local color of skin - orange. We determined light is cool so highlight on skin will be cooler than local color.
For the shadow there's no other color to influence it besides white walls so in shadows the darker version of orange with reduced intensity will do.
If you check color wheel oranges and blues are complementary colors, what means mixing them will give as grays. Pick colors from few places on photo, you will see it's true. Lights and shadows are mostly desturated version of orange.
But, how I said it's simplified version and reality is a little more complicated. Skin don't have only one hue on whole surface and it's probably Photoshoped photo with unrealistic lights :D Try autoportraits to observe nature in purest way :)