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

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Dodging makes areas of a print lighter, and burning makes them darker. Dodging is typically done with a circle of card attached to the end of a piece of wire. While you're exposing the photographic paper under the enlarger, you basically just waggle it around, casting a shadow over the area you want to lighten. Conversely, burning is done with a piece of card with a hole in it, where you block off most or all of the light except for the area you want to give more time to and thereby make darker (the paper produces a negative image). It's quite tricky and takes a lot of practice. The dodge & burn tools in Photoshop are *much* easier to use!