Tone Manipulation

I took a photo of this plant in the studio because I thought it looked really good. I love how you can really see the highlight on the plant where it has the most light shining on it. However I didn't feel like there was enough shadow and the red seat it was on really put me off as it is so bright.

This is the edited version that I made on photoshop, I made the background a lot darker, which looks better, however I may have made the photo too dark overall as some of the plant it very hard to see in the shaded area. Although overall I think it looks very good.

I took this photo in the studio of Ellie in a gas mask, I like the lighting as it was more controlled and I could say how the light would hit the mask to give it more shading, however it still looked too light in my opinion.

I used photoshop to change make the shadows darker or lighter, I made them darker as I thought this would look better, I also turned it black and white as I felt that it has too much colour in the original. There is not much difference but I definitely feel as though the edited one looks a lot better.

To make this sort of edit I clicked on the semi circle at the bottom of the page, which brought up a chart that I could edit to change how dark or light the overall picture was, this is how I made the shading of the photos darker.

Then I clicked black and white and this table came up. I was then able to change the colours darker or lighter, which is how I made the red background black, however I must've made it too dark so I should have put the bar nearer too the middle than it was.

Straight Images - Tone

Work Diary - Tone

Work Diary

Today I went out to look for photographs containing tone, I looked on campus and I took photos in the studio, this meant I could control where the light was coming from which meant that the tone looked better, I really enjoyed using the studio and I really enjoyed this subject as finding form was slightly challenging, however I understood what to do this time.

Progression:

To progress I think I would need to take more photos outside of the studio in a non controlled environment, I took a few photos outside but I don't think they are as good because the light was shining on them directly in most places.

Contact Sheet - Tone

Image Bank - Tone

Image Bank - Tone

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I like this photo because I can really see the tone of this photo, it's not the best one of the five, I like photographs of nature like this, flowers are probably my favourite. 

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I love this photograph because the Rock has a lot of tone, the shadows look good on it but the sky looks odd, I think that it looks quite off putting and it drags your eye away from the rock which is the main object in my opinion.

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I like this photograph because it's focus is very well done. I think that the tone is nice but it's a very dark photograph.

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I love this because it's a great example of tone, however it could also be texture, I personally think the lighting looks amazing.

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This isn't the best photograph but I really like the subject of the photograph.

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.