You're just not creative enough to realize that
lol
Sorry, read that this morning on my phone and haven't had time to make a proper reply:
"The photo on the left kind of makes you feel cold in a way"
No it doesn't. If this was your intention you didn't succeed. Just because A photo is prominently a cool color doesn't mean it makes the viewer feel cold or elicits a sense of cold. It's not a matter of the
viewer not being creative enough when viewing a photo, it's a matter of the photographer's skill in conveying their thoughts through a picture. You can't say "Well I want you to feel cold when you look at this and if you don't, you're not creative/don't have a good eye", but I can say "If that was your intention, you didn't succeed because the thought of being cold didn't even remotely enter my mind when I say that image."
"and the one on the right as a warm feeling to it, because of the heated orange colour It almost seems warm inside the lamp as opposed to the coldness of the darkness that surrounds it."
Again, color temperature does not elicit a sense of the temperature, it's simply a way of describing colors. That is to say, if I see a picture of an orange (as in fruit) on a black background, I don't think "Oh look, that orange seems very warm" I think "Oh look, fruit". Similarly, if I see a blue flame, I don't think "Oh, I wonder why that flame is cold?" I think "Oh, that flame is very hot!"
This is all to say, I have not failed as a viewer because I didn't feel cold while looking at 1 and warm while looking at 2, you've failed as a photographer (if that was what you were trying to accomplish with each image and not just pulling something out of your ass about the photos later) because you gave me nothing in either of the photos to suggest I should be feeling that way.
If you
wanted to convey temperature, made me feel cold while looking at 1, for example, you should've framed it with some snow on the ground and people walking by in coats. That would've made me feel cold while looking at the picture. Similarly, in picture 2, the way to make it feel warm is actually to include, like, some people huddled around in jackets around the lamps, or have the lamps near a fire and some people warming themselves by a fire. That would've made me think "Oh, he's trying to convey a hot scene or a cold scene. Colors alone do not accomplish anything, it's
all about the subject.
p.s. I just got back from a class trip to DC and will have photos in a while, possibly tonight.
