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Matej Maceas
{K:24381} 7/17/2003
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John, thanks for the info!
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John Charlton
{K:5595} 7/17/2003
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Thanks to everybody for your continued interest in this photo.
Matej; Attached is the (almost) original image. It is shrunk down and a small amount of contrast boosting took place between this and the original file. I also sharpened it after resizing it. NOTE: I did not at any point convert this image to black and white. There was very little colour in the scene to begin with so I left it alone.
As you can see, I toned a rectangular selection to show just how easy my sepia toning is. No big secret - I just shift the colour temperature to 5000 degrees Kelvin. This adjustment is available under adjust>color balance in Paint Shop Pro.
I do not see a similar adjustment in Photoshop but I only have the LE version. In that, color balance is restricted to adjustments to individual primary and secondary cololors.
This differs from PSP which actually shifts the colour temperature across the full colour spectrum.
I also use this technique for toning black and white photos. See Rolling Back the Years for some examples. In the case of toning black and white, I first prepare the photo in 256 shades and when I'm finished with that, I boost the image to 16 million colours and shift the colour temperature to 5000 degrees. For a more subtle effect I use 5500 degrees and to produce cool selenium type tones, I use 9300 degrees K.
Hope this helps. There are a couple of other things you can do in Paint Shop Pro for toning but I use this one because I like it and it is so simple.
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Matej Maceas
{K:24381} 7/17/2003
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Could you please attach the original photograph, and describe the toning process in more detail? Recently, I've played around quite a lot with converting colour images to B&W and then toning them, with the specific intention of enhancing the clouds present in the photographs. I'd be very interested to know how you achieved this stunning effect (and what part of it was already present in the original shot).
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Mike Marcotte
{K:3948} 5/25/2003
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Incredible. I agree with Heidi. The pole & trees give it the orientation it needs, great photo John.
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Dez Karpati
{K:2237} 4/16/2003
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Very dramativ, nice work
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GP Merfeld
{K:14396} 4/11/2003
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What an incredible capture of those clouds, intense and threatening... The toning perfectly suits the atmosphere as well... Since I am a bit of the Photoshop freak, I know that I would try a version where I have cloned out the telephone pole and wires, for a completely natural Nature scene, with just those corner tree branches giving the sense of scale... But that's me...;-).. Great capture of high drama, terrifically rendered.
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Valeh B
{K:890} 3/4/2003
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John, this is great! I have a similar shot to this. I love the clouds in sepia!
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John Charlton
{K:5595} 2/27/2003
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Thanks to everyone for your comments. I did make a print of this photo recently, cropping it into a square format even tighter than Alisa's.
As the storm approached, the sky above me went quickly from a sunny day to a featureless overcast rain. It was only in the transition zone between wet and dry that these dramatic clouds could be seen. With my zoom lens set as wide as I could, I pointed my camera almost straight up. I was only able to capture the tallest of nearby ground objects, the power transformer outside of my house, as a reference point.
I agree the picture seems a little off balance but in this case I think it adds to the overwhelming sense that something is about to happen.
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Alisa Mudge
{K:12511} 2/13/2004
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The toning and contrast really make this striking. I do agree that something is off with the composition. The left side makes me want to weight it down with something.
I tried it with a square format (knowing that you wouldn't mind) but I do think it takes away from the haunting character.
AM
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R. S.
{K:78} 2/23/2003
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well, that really looks like storm- i like best the combination with the title what suggests to me the pole is the watching. It fills the picture and since its not straight you got more dynamic. The sepia effect does the rest. By the way, i like the shadow instead of a frame.
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Heidi Dehncke-Fisher
{K:504} 2/22/2003
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Great shot...I like the grounding of it with the telephone pole/wires/ and trees at right. Looks like god was smoking a cigar.
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Richard Wells
{K:310} 2/22/2003
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Very ominous, I really like it.
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Steven N
{K:113} 2/22/2003
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Very dramatic, would like to have seen some of the horizon to give a sence of scale. The pole helps but .... i don't feel the composition is as good as it could be.
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