Tone
Theory and definition:
•This
refers to the lightness or darkness of something. This could be a shade or how
dark or light a colour
appears.
•Tones
are created by the way light falls on a 3D object. The parts of the object on
which the light is strongest are called highlights and
the darker areas are called shadows.
There will a range of tones in between the highlights and shadows.
•Without
tone Form does
not exist, tone is therefore an important aspect in the visualisation of
3D objects.
Image Bank:
Research:
Peter Martin was born in Toronto, Canada and developed his first pictures at the age of 13. He became a professional at 16 when a photo was published on the front page of a Toronto daily newspaper. At 17 he began free-lancing and continued his career as a staff photographer for newspapers in 3 Canadian cities: Toronto, Edmonton and Montreal. He has since covered more than 10,000 assignments over a 40-year career and has traveled extensively on assignment throughout North America, Europe, the Orient and the South Pacific photographing sports, fashion, portraits and in depth features. In 2004 he resigned from the Montreal Gazette after 16 years on staff to pursue personal projects .Peter has won significant critical recognition for his work including a Canadian National Newspaper Award and Recognition of Achievement Awards from both the Ontario and Alberta News Photographers Association.
(from the gallery website)↓
(from the gallery website)↓
The Constellation Series
The Lockheed Super Constellation. One of the most beautiful and iconic commercial aircraft ever built. This model, on display at the Munich Airport made its maiden flight on April 19th, 1955. Its last flight was March 9th 1967.
Photographed on 2-1/4 x 2-1/4 (6x6 cm) black and white Tri-X film using a vintage Rolleiflex twin lens reflex camera.
Martin in this series has used a range on tones within the zone system, from 0-10. This allows him to use the large contrast gradient to express the feelings of age and use of this aircraft, indicating the prowess and strength of this engineering marvel.
This series of black and white images are perfectly exposed and the shadowing exentuates details of the subject, along with the using the grayscale to create a sense of depth.
(AO:1. You must ensure that several of the visual ideas/inspirations within the image bank are pursued. )
AO1: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.
Contact sheet:
Series: Brick and steel
Images that require improvement:
AO3: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.
I felt that this image needed improvement as it had poor tonal range as well as very poor framing and composition. I decided to put the image into photoshop and altered the highlights and shadows, in order to give more detail. Additionally I cropped the image to help fix its dead space and tighten the composition up. The following screenshots show the evolution of the
This series of black and white images are perfectly exposed and the shadowing exentuates details of the subject, along with the using the grayscale to create a sense of depth.
(AO:1. You must ensure that several of the visual ideas/inspirations within the image bank are pursued. )
AO1: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.
Contact sheet:
Series: Brick and steel
Series: Swan lake
Images that require improvement:
AO3: Record ideas, observations and insights relevant to intentions, reflecting critically on work and progress.
I felt that this image needed improvement as it had poor tonal range as well as very poor framing and composition. I decided to put the image into photoshop and altered the highlights and shadows, in order to give more detail. Additionally I cropped the image to help fix its dead space and tighten the composition up. The following screenshots show the evolution of the
AO1: Develop ideas through sustained and focused investigations informed by contextual and other sources, demonstrating analytical and critical understanding.
Inspirations and ideas
Series: Brick and steel
This inspiration was to create a series of images using building mainly built of glass , using the reflection to create a vast tonal range against the shadows. I attempted to use a 2/3rds rule when composing the images. the light was conveniently hitting the windows which allowed me to exploit that factor to open up the lower tones of an image then underexposing the image overall in order to create the darker for higher tones present in the zone system scale.
Series: Swan lake
On a family walk in the local woods in evening light i stumbled upon a family of swans. the water had the reflection of the sunset which I feel similarly to the glass in "Brick and steel". The white swans also where overexposed purposely to expand the tonal range. i tired to use a lower iso as light was limited but the image became slightly grainy so i had t sacrifice the amount of light.
AO2: Explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops.
Camera settings:
Series: Brick and steel
It was bright and sunny day so my ISO was set at 800 with an f stop of 11 to create a larger amount of detail, i struggled to use my tripod there fore the images were taken lying down with a shotgun hold. the shutter speed was at 1/2000 as light had to be limited to a certain point.
Series: Swan lake
As the light was very limited i had to reduce the ISO to 200 which meant that the images would come out relatively grainy, to combat this i had to increase the shutter speed to roughly 1\125 and lower the ISO to around 7.8.
AO4: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and, where appropriate, makes connections between visual and other elements.
Best images
Series: Swan lake
On a family walk in the local woods in evening light i stumbled upon a family of swans. the water had the reflection of the sunset which I feel similarly to the glass in "Brick and steel". The white swans also where overexposed purposely to expand the tonal range. i tired to use a lower iso as light was limited but the image became slightly grainy so i had t sacrifice the amount of light.
AO2: Explore and select appropriate resources, media, materials, techniques and processes, reviewing and refining ideas as work develops.
Camera settings:
Series: Brick and steel
It was bright and sunny day so my ISO was set at 800 with an f stop of 11 to create a larger amount of detail, i struggled to use my tripod there fore the images were taken lying down with a shotgun hold. the shutter speed was at 1/2000 as light had to be limited to a certain point.
Series: Swan lake
As the light was very limited i had to reduce the ISO to 200 which meant that the images would come out relatively grainy, to combat this i had to increase the shutter speed to roughly 1\125 and lower the ISO to around 7.8.
AO4: Present a personal and meaningful response that realises intentions and, where appropriate, makes connections between visual and other elements.
Best images
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