Still Life Monochromes

[Paul Lange]

These are the best of the monochromed PP'ed images. All were shot in colour in digital but these seemed good candidates for monochrome.


I was freeform on the PP on all of these but did have an idea of what I was going for. This just had a slight bit of tinting to give it a slightly vintage feel. This was taken with a Lensbaby 50mm

_DSC0257.jpg by Paul R Lange, on Flickr



Again using the Lensbaby and a slightly stronger split tone tint. This has a bit more the look of an old large format image look about it in terms of colour

_DSC0251.jpg by Paul R Lange, on Flickr



The PP on this was a lot more involved and I used a lighter vignette in some places. Very different from the others and in some was I think it an odd image but I keep coming back to it as I find it interesting to look at, more so than the others in some ways.

_DSC0300-Edit.jpg by Paul R Lange, on Flickr

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Nice again, Paul, but without the warmth of the beautiful reds. Still likeable, though, especially the last. I like this technique.

 

[Paul Lange]

Cheers Rob, I know what you mean about the red it is rather nice and its easy to rely on it too much to make the image work so I thought I'd go for some monochrome images to get my head round the ideas of tones instead.

 

[Pete Askew]

These work well again, especially the first (although I'd lose a bit from the top). I think the toning really helps. I find the lighting a bit too direct in the last one though.

 

[Paul Lange]

Yeah (to the crop and comments on the last image), they all have things I like about them but are not quite there yet. I have worked out roughly how I want to take the photographs and the PP. They thing is now how to compose the objects, I don't feel that the subjects are interesting enough just yet. It is only two sittings so far so hopefully things become more clear as I do more.