split toned, high contrast portrait

newrmdmike · Jan 18, 2007

well, here it is . . . i'm not done with it, but this is one thing i'm thinking of doing with it, input welcome!

LaFoto · Jan 18, 2007

"Split toned" ... ?
You selectively desaturated ... no? You did some selective colouring with previously desaturated colours? Is that it? (The not all grey cuffs make me think... as does the part around his nose)

An interesting method, certainly not flattering to most. Male faces might still deal with this well - women might not be overly happy with it!?!? (A thought plus question to myself, this one is).

newrmdmike · Jan 18, 2007

yes, this was from a black and white, then i applied one tone to his skin and another to everything else.

this was definatly not supposed to be flattering, in fact this guys face was not nearly that worn, then i added some age with liquify.

women definatly not happy with this technique. haha, i doubt the guy would be to happy with it either though.

gizmo2071 · Jan 18, 2007

You did a good job. Only thing that bugs me is his eyes.

elsaspet · Jan 18, 2007

Sweet!

thebeginning · Jan 18, 2007

gizmo2071 said:
You did a good job. Only thing that bugs me is his eyes.

ditto. i like the effect alot (i'm a huge fan of dragan, but you knew that), but the eyes seem a little too creepy

newrmdmike · Jan 22, 2007

thanks guys,and yeah that eye is looking pretty strange.

oCyrus55 · Jan 22, 2007

I think it looks really cool too, but the eye does creep me out... But good job

zaramuni · Jan 25, 2007

Maybe if you put some collor back into his eyes?

newrmdmike · Jan 25, 2007

doesn't change it much, still looks pretty odd . . . but i don't mind, at full res its not soooo odd

Sebastian · Jan 26, 2007

Nice picture. The pose and the perspective is quite good!!!:thumbup:
But there is one thing that comes to mind. The hand and the ear are truncated.
Except fot that I do like your pic as well. I`d like your colorstyle, it suits to the person.

newrmdmike · Feb 11, 2007

thanks . . . although i'm not sure what i think about the hand and ear being not completely in the frame.

i'm tempted to say that i want the frame filled, however i've left some space at the top right to lead the viewer on to what he is looking at.

(thats my story and i'm sticking to it)

however it was a quick snap at a party i was photographing.

ksmattfish · Feb 12, 2007

newrmdmike said:
thanks . . . although i'm not sure what i think about the hand and ear being not completely in the frame.

i'm tempted to say that i want the frame filled...

I think you did a good job of filling the frame. In any beginning art class the first lesson on composition would be to make sure your subject breaks at least three of the sides of the image frame.

What you've done here is a selective tone: selectively toning particular areas of the photo. A split tone is when you split the tonal range: for instance blue in the lower tones, and magenta in the middle tones.

I like this photo. Don't find it creepy at all.