Split Toning, Monotoning, and a quick revisit to Time

I chose a fleshy tone for this one because I thought the snow blob on the left looked kind of like a hand and I wanted to suggest that further with the color. I countered it with the purple tone to give it a little depth and mystery since purple suggests that.

I wanted this one have that kind of "picture found in grandma's photo box in the attic" look, so I chose the sepia tone for a majority of the picture. I added a pale blue to help emphasize the coldness of the snow.

Okay, this one is a little too saturated, but I wanted it to have that kind of effect to make it suggest that blue arctic ice you see in like Antarctica.  

To me, the tunnel looks very sci-fi and I wanted to push that further by using a blue in the highlights and a pale dusty violet in the shadows to make it look more silvery and metallic while still giving it that other-worldly effect.

It might be snow but that arch looks like rain and reminded me of a rainbow. So I wanted to do something along the lines of The Wizard of Oz because with the rain and rainbow I started singing "Somewhere over the Rainbow to myself." So the two variations of sepia helped give it the look the film did at the beginning.

Steampunk. That's all I wanted to capture. So I went with a sepia tone but a paler one to allow the natural silver to come through on the museum entrance.

Biblical Roman set piece was the idea I wanted to come across here. So I gave it a yellowy-brown wash to make it look like sandstone or parchment paper.

The original picture had a lot of warmth in it, so I wanted to see what it would look like cold. And the result was bright, harsh, and lonely. It looks more like an industrial office than a library and I kind of liked the story potential in that. Haunting and daunting in the way 1984 is haunting and daunting.

Blue and grey for the cold winter effect. The bare branches help emphasize the emptiness. It just looks sad and cold.

The canal usually runs kind of green so I decided to play around with that. The result looks something vaguely alien or digital like in the Martix.

A revisit to time. So as a recap, I finally learned how to take pictures in full manual mode - although I'm still having a little trouble focusing crisply because wearing glasses and looking through view finders is a pain. But I was able to control the light intake and shutter speed to accomplish this photo.

Time

Exposure: F/5.6
Time: 1/200
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 44

 

Exposure: f5.6
Time: 1/40
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 55mm

Exposure: f/14
Time: 1/4
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 55 mm

Exposure: f/5.6
Time: 1/50
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 26 mm

Exposure: f/5.6
Time: 1/50
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 26 mm

Exposure: f/14
Time: 1/160
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 55mm  

Exposure: f/5.6
Time: 1/40
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 26 mm

Exposure: f/14
Time: 1/400
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 55 mm

Exposure: f/14
Time: 1/100
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 40 mm









Exposure: f/5.6
Time: 1/20
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 55 mm (For the one below because the formatting is being difficult)

I would like to point out that I was stupid. I thought I was doing it right until I realized I was doing it all wrong. Long story short, a brief conversation with my roommate whose camera I am using would have spared me the pain of not knowing how to adjust the controls manually (although to my credit it required the flipping of a switch I didn't know about.) 

In the end, I now know how to set the controls independently, and will strive to do so in upcoming assignments, so sorry this one isn't done "correctly." But, hey, I got photos… 

On another note, I took some liberty with the "Time" parameter. For me, sunset counts as time because it's a distinct time of day. Autumn is a specific time of year so I counted it too. The others, I tried for motion or implied motion to show that time is passing in the frame. 

Black and White

Black and White photography is one of my favorite. Also, being in a drawing class this semester has kind of wired my brain to see value, so that helped a little.