Week 4: Shading and Color Pallete

On the way home from Yosemite, I took pictures of things that caught my eye. One of them was the clouds and their shadows over Mono Lake on the 395. This picture just has so many different shades of color, but what caught my eye was that they have a very similar pallete/ color scheme, like what works in class a lot. The deep blue of the water is very close to the color of the shadows cast by the clouds, and also the color of the clouds themselves (usually on the bottom). The different shades of blue in the sky are similar across a pallete- darker in the top of the picture, and lighter in the background. The clouds are white, blue and grey, but when you look closely, they are many different shades of each of those colors in different places. The bottoms of the clouds are very dark blue/grey, but the tops are lighter grey into very white. The white really pops against the darker, richer colors of the rest of the picture. The land that the clouds are shadowing is a light brown-green that unites the deep richness of the lake (the greenish tinge) with the lighter aspect of the clouds (the light brown aspect). Altogether, I love this picture and the many shades that it contains.