Color Hunt Photos
Grab a camera (or a grown-up's phone camera) -- today YOU are a color detective! Photographers go on color hunts all the time, looking for the reddest red or the bluest blue to make their pictures pop.
What You'll Learn
- Spot and name colors in the world around you - Take a photo that shows off one main color - Notice how light changes how a color looks - Sort your color photos into a rainbow
Being a Color Detective
A color detective looks everywhere for clues: a red stop sign, a yellow banana, a green leaf. When you find a color, get close with your camera so that color fills up most of the picture. That's called your subject -- the main thing your photo is about!
Light Changes Color
Here's a photographer secret: the same red apple looks different in bright sunlight than it does in a shady spot. Sunlight can make colors look bright and bold, while shade can make colors look softer and a little darker. Try photographing the same object in two different lighting spots and see what changes!
Blurry photos happen when the camera moves. Hold the camera with both hands, stand still, and take a breath before you snap the picture.
Building Your Rainbow
Real photographers organize their photos into collections. Today's collection is a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. Try to find and photograph at least one object for each color -- a red apple, an orange cone, a yellow flower, a green leaf, a blue sky patch, a purple crayon.
Go on a Rainbow Color Hunt
Take 6 photos, one for each rainbow color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple), making sure that color fills most of each picture. Print or display your 6 photos in rainbow order side by side. Tell a family member or classmate which color was hardest to find and why.
Match each object to the color it usually is.
Terms
Definitions
Drag terms onto their definitions, or click a term then click a definition to match.
Why does a photographer get close to an object during a color hunt?
What happens to a color's look when you move an object from bright sunlight into shade?
Professional photographers often talk about 'golden hour' -- the warm, soft light just after sunrise or before sunset -- because it makes colors look especially rich in photos.
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