A fun thing to do, from time to time, is to make a set of photos that are composed predominantly of a single vivid colour and tones thereof maybe. A sort of photographic colour tone poem in many ways.
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My choice of colour for this set was made for me on this particular day, blue from the blue skies reflected in the water of the river, deep blue.
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To enhance the colour I set the colour profile on the creative dial on the front of my Pen-F to the 'Color' profile control which was pre-set to the 'Vivid' picture mode.
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I then set about choosing scenes with large expanses of blue in them, adjusting the exposures where necessary to bring out the deeper tones.
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I also placed objects in the frame with hot colouring, like tones of whites and reds, to provide contrast with the deep blue and emphasise its dominance. Finally, I did no post processing of the images whatsoever having worked hard to get them exactly how I wanted them in the camera when I made them.
There you have it, 'A Study in Blue' - sample images from which may be found here.