Tone - Work Diary

Tone was an interesting shoot and the editing involved using both greyscale and duotone. Editing and shooting tone makes it very easy to grasp, and the look of the pictures with a lack of colour while using mainly their tone could be useful in the future.

This is a picture of my my sock with my foot in it. I have changed the picture to greyscale to remove the colour and did not duotone it. I think this is a god example of tone because my sock is usually multicoloured but here many of the tones can be seen as quite similar as the colour has been removed.

This was not a picture that was chosen for my straight prints, I think the photo is not very interesting, it's very much generic and does not look professional, nor does it represent tone very well. I wanted to take pictures of the engine and some old cars to create an antique look, this was not achieved.












If I were to continue with this session I would look for more pictures that would usually look vibrant and colourful as well as pursuing my 'antique-looking' photograph with a duotone.

Definition Page - Tone

Dictionary definition - The overall lightness or darkness of an area of an image.

• Shade
• Darkness
• Lightness
• Greyscale

This photo shows a setting that would, presumably, contain many colours. It has been set to black and white and so only the shades/tones of the different colours are visible. It shows the tone in many things and how the tone of colours can be the same while the colours are completely different.

This photograph also shows what should contain many contrasting colours as looking the same as they share the same tone. It shows how tone is used in real life, photographers, unlike the eye, are able to pick out the tone and remove the colours. People do not usually look at things, especially things of contrasting colours, by their tone.

This photograph is not only black and white, it shows the use of duotone, an alternative to black and white photography which adds one colour to the picture, replacing the ordinary black or white. This duotone shows the tone of this photo well, but can also be used to make photographs look perhaps, a little antique.

This picture is another good example of tone. The tone of some parts of the bridge, the people, the sea and the sky are very similar, though the colours are surely very contrasting when not removed.

My definition - The lightness, darkness or shade of a colour.

 Image Bank - Tone


This photograph uses a black and white effect to show similar tones in many different colours on a beach and in the sky. Many of the colours look very similar now as colour is lost but the tones of each colour still remains.











This photograph shows a wilting flower and does not use black and white, the tone of the flower itself is changing throughout the petals.

This photograph shows a country road near a farm and represents tone very well. Like the black and white photos, a lot of the colour has been removed so that only the shades/tones of the different greens, browns, golds and blues can be seen. I prefer this effect to the black and white, I think it looks more antique and natural than the black and white.

The last three photographs share many characteristics of the first three. Colour is removed from all of them to show the tone of the colour rather than it's actual colour. The Eiffel Tower photo and the photo of the rusting car have been edited in a similar way, perhaps using duotone rather than just a black and white effect.