Tone work diary, Tuesday 6th October 2015.

On Tuesday 6th September 2015, our element for our task was, Tone! Within this lesson the main thing in which I learnt was that to find tone, lighting was your best friend. However this day was rather dreary and grey, which made finding tone rather hard. Although when it came to editing, even the photos which I thought weren't the greatest, showed tone a lot more than what I originally thought.




A photo I don't like...
I don't like this image. If this image was another element, perhaps shape, I would like it, although I believe it doesn't show tone in the way which I had intended. Even though there is some change in tone, it isn't that clear. I also don't like the fact there is green in the background of this as believe I takes away the main image of the objects.

A photo I like...

Even though it looks like I took this image in the studio, I managed to take it in a shop because I liked the way the lighting fell onto her face. This photo was one in which I managed to edit. I really like this photo (both of them) and feel that I clearly shows the main concept of what I learnt in this lesson, lighting is the most important element when finding tone. Even though you can see tone on the left one, I believe the tone is much more dominant on the black and white one. Whilst editing this I changed the contrast and the brightness to help show the tone more. You can clearly see the highlighted tone diagonally down the face, across the nose. This is why I like this photo because more images conveying tone on a face is when the highlighted tone is one side and the shadow tone would be on the other side which transitional tone through the rest of the face. However on this photo, the middle is highlighted and the shadowed tone is behind the hair.

When I was out in town taking photos of tone I found it really challenging to find tone. However when editing I found it much more easier to notice that everything can show a tone, whether it's dominate or just slight and editing makes it much more easier to see tone.

Progression...

If I were given the chance to re-do this element and to go out and take more images I would defiantly change the way I went about it. I found it rather challenging to find images which suited tone, however I forgot how editing them could help tone come out in an image. What I found was that black an white images show tone, however the images I got didn't all suit this so I would make sure next time I'd look out more for this. Examples of how I would do this shoot are shown below as these are images which I have found and find inspirational.