[Photography] 24 Powerful Images With Complementary Colors

Complementary colors are ones which are opposite on the color wheel.

By Lacie Lynnae

They appear often in nature and are called complementary because they do just that, complement one another. They work well and make strong compositions.

Water and fire by wim denijs on 500px

Examples of common color combinations that work are:

• Orange and blue


• Yellow and purple


• Red and green

Here are 24 examples of images that use complementary colors for a powerful composition:

Flower 03 by MaX Smiles on 500px

The Concert Hall by Jürgen Lehmann on 500px

The Red Dress by Ken Thai on 500px

Cloud Atlas by Meer Sadi on 500px

Silent Witness by Moni on 500px

Cosmos by Julia Carvalho on 500px

Fickle macro by Stolpulus II on 500px

Dream sailing by Roberto D'Antoni on 500px

Calm Sunset in El Nido by Sunny Merindo on 500px

Heart of October by Mihai Dulu on 500px

Norah by Suzy Mead on 500px

A colorful morning by Martijn Barendregt on 500px

Perfect Cuteness by Gurdyal Singh on 500px

BayBridgeBlueFull by Bill Nichols on 500px

Star Chamber by Joseph Rossbach on 500px

pondering by Alex Serres on 500px

attractor by Pascal Faber on 500px

white eye by Woody L. Chu on 500px

I am not a Lady Bug by Gideon James Draviam on 500px

delicious pomegranate cocktail by Oxana Denezhkina on 500px

…complementary colors… by Marko Grubisic on 500px

Complementary colors by Mauro Moroni on 500px

Red sea by Vitaliy Sokol on 500px

Yellow Butterfly by alaine on 500px

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