Tonal Harmony - Warm Tones

Imagine a cold, blustery, Saskatchewan winter day and you happen to be looking at a picture of a sunset with really amazing colours or a picture of candles burning; does looking at that image on that cold day give you a feeling of warmth? If it does then you are looking at an image with warm tones and that is exactly what a warm image should do for the viewer.

For this assignment we had to shoot images using only warm tones, oranges, yellow, browns, etc. Normally you can mix some cool tones into an overall warm tone image, but for this assignment we had to once again stay true to Tonal Harmony and shoot only warm tones. For example, the shot below of the barn at sunset is a warm photo, the wood on the barn is warm, the sky is warm, but the little bit of green grass surrounding the barn is a cool tone so it was a warm tone photograph, but did not have tonal harmony (because I had warm and cool tones mixed in there). The shot of my Scentsy warmer and it's reflection on my countertop is a great example of a warm tone.