Just For Fun – grey poll

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1. I like a nice , neutral, eighteen percent gray/grey.

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   • so a nice light grey for you?

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     • Yes. This goes back to Johannes Itten, “The Art of Color” in the beginning. Joseph Albers as well a little bit. But it is a preference that came from taking slides of my sculptures and glass. A neutral 18 percent gray is recommended . (a blue gray will look underexposed, etc…) — Anyway, I found that a color placed on a neutral gray field has some visual panache . This is completely a visual preference for me.

2. Love this shot. I don’t like grey or black for clothes. Except for that little black dress.. I do like black and white photography, images, etc. I like black cars, charcoal, silver.. I tend to lean toward the cool greys, but nothing like a touch of warm in a nice shade of grey.. Okay, I am rambling.. !!

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   • Why you ramble, no one knows… Wild and wind blown, that’s how you’ve grown. Who can cling to a ramblin’ rose?

3. I find myself gravitating toward grey, but I don’t think of it as a favorite color except in cats. I love grey cats.

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   • So then at night you love all cats?

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     • I love all cats anyway, just more so if they are grey.

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       • But you’re familiar with the adage that at night, all cats are grey?

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4. I also love grey, because it goes with everything as well.

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   • Neutrals pair with anything, it’s part of their charm…

5. Grey is one of my favourite colour …
   it’s so close to black… but a little “friendlier”

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   • You can get it as close to black as you’d like, or make it damn near white. Grey is very accommodating that way…

6. The color gray is nice to see in a drawing or on anyone.

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   • It isn’t an insistent color- it gets along with everyone…

     • You are correct since I noticed that in Major League Baseball gray looks great on the visiting team.

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       • Color theory in action! Neutrals are easier to deal with than those diva primary colors…

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         • You are correct on this matter.

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7. Actually dogs can see a little color but, for the most part, they see in monochrome. I only found that out recently.

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   • I thought they only had rods. So they have cones, too?

     • Yeah, but very few. I was like you. I thought they just saw in shades of gray.

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       • When men are colorblind they generally can’t see red and/or green. I wonder what the canine gamut is…

8. I am glad to hear you did. I sat through years of color theory and I guess it finally sunk in…

9. I tend to stay with cool colors. They seem to be more peaceful. Not that you care about peace when you are creating. But with photography I like the cooler colors, except for flowers than I want the more vibrant.

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   • I am more concerned with the whole “cool colors recede / warm colors pop” part of color theory, because the psychological side of color theory is subjective

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10. I do like grey when combined with white, black or different shades of gray. Enjoyed your color lesson Alex.

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    • I am glad to hear you did. I sat through years of color theory and I guess it finally sunk in…