Exercise: Colour Relationships - Part 1

It was suggested by J. W. Von Goethe than when taking pictures of complementary colours, there should be a certain ratio of each colour within the frame, to create the best possible photograph. These ratios are;
Red: Green - 1:1
Orange:Blue - 1:2

Yellow: Violet - 1:3
It is stated that hues. colours, vary from dark to light, violet being a dark hue and yellow being a light one and to achieve the best possible harmony between two complementary colours, you need to focus on their brightness.
Red and green are as bright as each other, hence the ratio 1:1, but orange is twice as bright as blue and yellow three times as bright as violet, hence their ratios also. So the proportion of each colour needs to be taken into account to create a photograph with beautiful harmony.

For this exercise, i tried this with photographs of my own

2 blue crystals behind one orange crystal creates the ratio 1:2

Here i took a photograph of a boat that was both red and green against a platform that was again, red and green. This photograph is predominantly green however, so i cropped it to try and get as close to the ratio 1:1 , as suggested, as possible

I found it a bit harder to find violet and yellow together in my natural surroundings, and so took a photograph of somebody wearing yellow and violet clothing against a violet background, and tried to get as close to the ration 1:3 as i could.