Would like feedback on duotone techniques

[robnelsonxx2]

Hi, I have been working with duotone techniques -- the engineering side, in writing an editor.

I have created some duotones, and I would greatly appreciate knowing what you think.

I'll post two here, and the rest can be found on flickr at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7507169@N04/sets/72157610760436838/

There aren't too many traditional duotones in this set. I've been working on more edge techniques, to see what I can get away with, so I can make the duotoning process as powerful and effective as possible.

If you can point me to some awesome duotones I can take a look at, that would be great, too.

Here are a couple here, both from black-and-white sources (one from a desaturated color picture, and the other from an original black-and-white)

(I did not take these pictures)

A two-color duotone:

A one-color duotone (where I took some popularization license, for some unknown reason):

This particular duotone has one color hue throughout the entire image. I have a split/two-color duotone that looks more photorealistic, but I thought this was more intrinsically interesting being one color throughout -- I just think it's amazing that you could print this with a single ink.

Anyway, thanks for looking.

Rob