Colour and Tritone versions of that image...

[compilerbitch]

Click here for the full resolution colour version, or here for the tritone -- they are both huge files, so be warned!


Traditionally, duotones, tritones and quadtones are created by overprinting the same monochrome image with different colured inks, typically each having different levels of contrast. You can get some very subtle effects, or go in for false colour lunacy if you prefer. I went for something that looks a bit like a platinum print -- I was going for an 'Ansel Adams' kind of extended contrast, plate camera look. The highlights are overprinted in silver, and the shadows in a dark brown. I'd love to get an A3 or larger print made -- the huge resolution is too much for A4 really. I like the look.

For completeness, I thought I'd upload the original colour version too

Comments

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Gosh, it's astonishing how much difference colour makes to the feel of it -- feel as in enheartening versus dark and gritty.

[andrewwyld.livejournal.com]

Those are beautiful.

[trurl.livejournal.com]

I'd be curious to see what the component images look like, because it is a pretty convincing image.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Architectural photography in B&W. I'd almost forgotten... Anyone fancy going somewhere with really quirky, detailed buidings (like The Park in Nottingham) and coming back with exposures that look sinister, striking, disturbing, breathtaking or Just Plain Weird?

Actually, the Square Mile on a Sunday morning would do.

Must get that correcting lens (prevents fish-eye distortion when you're taking really wide angles) that I've been promising myself for years.