Monochromatic color scheme: an interior where every single element is a different value of the same deep teal hue. No other hue appears anywhere in the frame. Variation comes only from lightness and saturation of that one color.

Complementary color contrast: a scene built entirely on orange and blue sitting directly opposite each other, a warm orange sodium-lit building face against a deep blue twilight sky and blue shadows, no green or purple anywhere

Analogous color scheme: an autumn forest scene using only neighbouring hues, yellow, yellow-orange, orange and red-orange, nothing from the cool half of the wheel at all, gentle transitions between adjacent colors

A harbour on an overcast morning rendered in a very muted, near-neutral palette with strong tonal separation between light and dark areas. Colors drained almost to grey, only a faint rust-orange rope keeps any hue. Properly exposed with deep blacks and full detail, NOT washed out, NOT white, NOT foggy.

Maximum saturation: a market stall of tropical fruit and painted crates in the most intense possible primary colors, pure reds, electric yellows and vivid greens all at full chroma with no muting whatsoever

Split toning: a cinematic landscape where the highlights carry a warm golden tint while the shadows are pushed distinctly toward cool cyan-blue, the two tints clearly separated by luminance rather than by object, classic film grade look

Selective color: an entirely black and white street scene, every person and building fully monochrome, except one single red umbrella which retains its full vivid color. Nothing else in the frame has any hue at all.

Clashing color temperatures in one frame: an office at dusk where cold blue-green fluorescent ceiling light, a warm orange tungsten desk lamp, and neutral blue daylight through the window all fall on the same room, each tinting its own zone

Strictly limited three color palette: a flat graphic poster-like still life using ONLY cream, deep navy and a single burnt coral, exactly three colors and no others, no gradients, each shape filled with one of the three flat tones