Definition - Tone

Tone

This refers to the darkness or lightness of something, this could be a shade or how dark or light a colour is.

Tones are created by the way light falls on a 3D object. The parts of an object on which the light is it’s strongest.

Lighter tones can be used to show femininity and innocence, whereas darker tones can be used to show masculinity and power.

This shows tone because you can see from which side the light is hitting the house from. It is quite an isolated looking photograph. It also looks quite masculine because it doesn't contain many curved, it has quite sharp edges.

I like this photograph because it has a lot of tone, there's a lot of shadows in this photograph which shows us that the light source was probably high up in the air when this was taken.

This photograph is an example of tone, I think this photograph is quite odd because I'm not sure what has happened to the floor, however I chose it because the rocks have lots of tone, they have shadows that show the shape of the object a lot better.