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Right come on then....sock it to me! What do you think, what would you do different, dont hold back!
(by the way, please no one mention the wire....I know its there and will be eliminating later)
Right come on then....sock it to me! What do you think, what would you do different, dont hold back!
(by the way, please no one mention the wire....I know its there and will be eliminating later)
My first attempt at a Duo Tone.
You sound like you are expecting a hard time with this one. Well if you are sure Here goes. The crop is just not right. The roof meets the top boarder. The sky looks better in the reflections than for real. Not even sure the reflections should be there. Also find the angle over powering. It's probably a work of art, and I know sod all about that, so I'm likely to be hammered for my comments. Duo tone looks OK so that's a plus.
You sound like you are expecting a hard time with this one. Well if you are sure Here goes. The crop is just not right. The roof meets the top boarder. The sky looks better in the reflections than for real. Not even sure the reflections should be there. Also find the angle over powering. It's probably a work of art, and I know sod all about that, so I'm likely to be hammered for my comments. Duo tone looks OK so that's a plus.
Haha, well I'm not going to disagree with you Ron. The frame/crop is too tight, the camera angle is creating angles that don't seem to suit the square nature of the doors and windows. It just seems to grate somehow. As Ron says though the duo tone works OK
Wot Ron and Stephen said .. except I'm not bowled over by the chosen duotone as I think you may have lost too much detail in the dark areas.
I'd suggest having a go at doing it in Tritone or even Quadtone.
Another suggestion would be to do your duotone/tritone/quadtone on a new layer. Then you can reduce the transparency of the layer so that more of the background b/w layer shows through. You'd might need to revert the mode back to RGB to get the desired end result.
thanks for the honest feedback guys and gals, I really wanted to know what people thought on this one.
Like i said it was a first attempt, and it was interesting to hear what people thought of the tones.
I did this, as i was inspired by my recent magazine article, but I need to re-read it, as I couldnt work out how to then save back to 'jpeg' without using 'save for web'
Pol, i like your idea of layers, its not something I would have thought of. So thanks for that.
I would still be interested to hear what others think. Or if people have any other handy hints for creating duotones!
Experiment ad infinitum. You don't necessarily have to use White either. You can use any colour in the white option - as long as you give the colour a name.
It can sometimes be interesting to replace the white with a pale yellow tinge and add other sepia tones for a duo/tri/quad image- or maybe a pale blue in the white with a selection of other blues for the duo/tri/white.
I almost always use layers at different transparency levels when I'm trying things out. they're a quick and easy way of seeing how effects work with the original background layer.
I wonder if the scene wouldn't have worked better if you had got closer to the hut & shot at a slight angle upwards! Focusing on the door & very top round window thing! Not that keen on the dark tones myself!
Pol, i like your idea of layers, its not something I would have thought of. So thanks for that.
My advise would be whatever adjustments you are making, be it contrast control, toning, cloning, sharpening, or anything else you can think of, do each on a separate layers .
Its easy to delete a layer that is not wanted without undoing other work.
I often have multiple layers on a single image, I think looking back I once had 50 or more on one image, a bit over the top you might think, and it might have been, but I got the image I wanted in the end.
Experiment ad infinitum. You don't necessarily have to use White either. You can use any colour in the white option - as long as you give the colour a name.
It can sometimes be interesting to replace the white with a pale yellow tinge and add other sepia tones for a duo/tri/quad image- or maybe a pale blue in the white with a selection of other blues for the duo/tri/white.
I almost always use layers at different transparency levels when I'm trying things out. they're a quick and easy way of seeing how effects work with the original background layer.
Pol
Ben - I dug out one from a year or two ago that was layered then either tri or quad toned with shades of blue. I forget whether it was tri or quad but there was no pure white included in the tone selected - though I used a very pale blue in the white box.
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Here goes. The crop is just not right. The roof meets the top boarder. The sky looks better in the reflections than for real. Not even sure the reflections should be there. Also find the angle over powering. It's probably a work of art, and I know sod all about that, so I'm likely to be hammered for my comments.
Duo tone looks OK so that's a plus.
The frame/crop is too tight, the camera angle is creating angles that don't seem to suit the square nature of the doors and windows. It just seems to grate somehow. As Ron says though the duo tone works OK
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