ronmeyer

Thanks in advance for comments.

Please critique, thanks in advance.

I tried to capture the feeling on the vastness of the ocean, while emphasizing the small, yet unique nature of a couple in this setting.

John, you're welcome! If you look at my portfolio, the photo "Sunset Silos" you will see an example of split toning. In this image the highlights have a sepia/warm tone while the dark tones are a colder blue. This image was processed in Lightroom where you have the ability to split tone easily, selecting the toning hue (or hues for split), the amount of saturation for the hue(s). You can also set the tonal point where the split occurs. My comments assume you use lightroom, but the same effects can be done in photoshop or other software. Play with it and have fun! Ron

Thanks in advance for comments. I was trying to capture the "soul" of the musician.

Hi John, a very powerful, graphic image you have created. I think this image begs to be in B&W. The color version looses its impact and emotion. So IMHO, keep it in B&W, it also begs to be printed, and perhaps a slight sepia tone, or sepia split tone in the highlights and keep the neutral or cool blacks. I'd love to see a version of that. I am a big fan of vignettes, but I do a custom burn in around the image, sometimes subtle and sometimes not so subtle, depends on what the photo needs/wants. And I generally do not make the vignette symmetric, its highly dependent on the image and shape of the subject, etc. So if this were my image, I would do a very slight vignette just on the left and lower left to slightly bring down the lighter tones, help close off the photo slightly. The way I like to visualize it is to view the photo in lightroom at a very small size, so it appears as I would see it hanging on a wall 10 or 15 feet away. Just a thought... I like the way the highlight tones have a subtle fall off to the right, in back of the fence, gives a good feeling of depth to the photo. This image has the "dang factor".... What's that you ask? "dang, I wish I would have taken that"! Well done! Ron

HDR image, converted to B&W, then split toned. Thanks in advance for your comments.