Color Schemes

I found this week's assignment about color schemes to be more difficult to photograph than I was expecting. While I understood the concept of each color scheme, monochrome, analogous, and complementary, I struggled to find photo opportunities to express the schemes.

Analogous:
My first thought was to gather some of my son's fuzzy friends to take a photo op. He absolutely loves his stuffed animals and while I probably could've used stuffed animals to show each color scheme, I thought this small sample of browns and tans would work well against the wooden stairs and white wall.

Monochrome:

I had started with the stuffed animals thinking it would look more monochrome because it would all just be shades of brown but with such a variety in the hues I didn't feel it fit. So I thought of another monochrome picture. My new to me white car against my white apartment building. 

Complementary:

I found it actually difficult to find two colors opposite of the color wheel but placed together. Sure, photos of flowers probably would've worked wonderfully but with all the rain, all the flowers in my yard have disappeared. I started wandering through the house and found this finger painting my daughter made a while ago. It is red flowers sitting on some greenery.

I still couldn't help but try to find some color outside. The only color of plant I could find was the red leaves against the green background. The red isn't as bright as I would've liked for this photo but I am fond of this photo for some reason. I think it may be the rain drops lingering on the leaves considering I had to zoom in quite a bit because I took this photo off a small bridge and this was quite a bit in front of me.

As I came back in, I realized that the candles that I have set up in my dining room would fit this color scheme because they are opposite on the color wheel even though they still have the same tone to them.