Work Diary - Tone

Evaluation

In Monday's photography session where I went around the college to take photographs portraying 'tone' I really found myself enjoying this certain task. I believe that a photo being in black and white can make anything out of the ordinary seem interesting. If I were to take a picture of the corner of a building in normal colour it would look quite bland and unnatractive, whereas when I took this photo in black and white the different shades and tones made this usually boring photograph actually a really good attempt at demonstrating 'tone' through pictures. I didn't find this topic too stressful or hard as I was able to take a picture of nearly anything as long as it contained different shades and a variety of tones. There was a range of black, greys and whites in nearly every single picture that I shot which I believe contributed to my success with the aim for the lesson. One of my favourite photographs that I captured in Monday's session was the one of the leaf below.

This photograph is simply of an extremly light leaf in the colour white, resting on top of a patch of grass that would usually be a variety of greens, but in this case is a variety of blacks and greys. Tone here has been thoroughly covered as the audience would be aware of the leaf being a completely different part to the image compared to the grass. If the leaf wasn't as white as this then this photograph wouldn't be as effective as it's this fresh piece of nature that's the subject of the picture. 

This photograph of mine on the other hand was actually one of the worst pictures that I took from my point of view. There is no dark shades in this image. Most of the colours that build up this picture are light greys and a few dark greys. To portray tone, black needs to be involved so that shade is evident. Also, the reflection of someone else taking this photo has been indluded in the left of this picture which immediately makes the quality of photography in this photograph decrease. I do not believe that it was a success at all.

Progression

I don't usually like to take many photographs in black and white. I appreciate that it creates an interesting feel when being the main effect of a photograph, however I do not think that I would use black and white in my project. Nonetheless, there are a lot of pictures that inspire me for 'tone' for if I were to go out and re-shoot this topic. I found images that efficiently covered dark shades and light shades to be the most successful types of pictures. There isn't really a focus that I have in mind when taking pictures of tone as I believe that anything can portray tone and so a variety of images, like the ones I have listed below, are just as effective when together as a handful of photographs, rather than being all based on the same topic/idea. These photographs beneath are extremely inspiring, and the ones of the animals are ones that attract me most. Tone can also be in sepia or a different colour as long as the photograph contains the same colour throughout, with just different shades and tones of that colour for example, the tiger picture.