Digital Photography & Tone setting
August 29th 2006 16:45
The Crown Casino - Melbourne
One of the greatest advantages of digital photography is that you could change the photograph into various tones that you fancy. A photograph of today can be converted into a century-old look by using the right tone setting.
So what is toning in photography?
Yes, your guess is correct! It is something to do with colour of the photograph.
Toning means any procedure used to change the colour of the black and white photographic image. It differs from dyeing, which is used to colour the base material on which the image is coated. These are more of a traditional method.
But today with the evolving photography-based software most can be achieved by a ‘click’ of the mouse. For instance it could be Adobe Photoshop or a simple Mac’s iPhoto software. The latter hardly needs any knowledge on software… it is very simple and easy to follow..
The photographs published in this post are edited using iPhoto software.
Professionally, toning is used for two purposes, first and most obviously for aesthetic effect in changing the colour, but also some toners make the image more stable. Toners used for archival purposes include gold, selenium and sulphide toning.
Gold toning is seldom used, largely because of its cost, but also the cold blue-black tones produced are seldom desirable. Selenium toning is widely used for archival purposes and also for the slight cooling of the image and the more intense blacks it produces.
By far the most effective archivally is however sulphide toning, but it also gives a sepia colour. (see photo B)
(B) Sepia-tone photograph
Sepia tone is used on black & white photographs to give that aged look!
(C) Black & white photograph
Well, now that you know what wonders can be done with digital photographs, you could try your 'artistic' skills and to impress your near and dear ones!!
'Cheese' for now =)
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