Warm and Cool Compositions

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Sunrise at Deep Creek

I'd like to look a little more closely at groups of analogous colors, particularly when making compositions using warmer colors or cooler colors.  If you're not familiar with the distinction, the best way to begin to distinguish between warmer and cooler colors is to think of the colors of the rainbow:  Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.  The colors closer to the red side of the rainbow are warmer colors.  The colors closer to violet are cooler colors.

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Sunrise at Crescent Beach
The two sample photographs above were both taken at sunrise, but the colors in the photograph at Deep Creek are distinctively warmer than the photograph taken at Crescent Beach.  Look at the feel of both photographs.  I know that they are different subjects, but on the basis of the color alone, how does the "temperature" of the photograph affect the mood of each image?


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