anticipation
Hanging on the wall in my bedroom is a gift from a friend from her “Oslo in Winter” series. Eli Reinholdtsen sent me it as a surprise after the fiasco of my missing canvas. I’ve always loved the look and feel of Eli’s images and in particular this series with its moody duo tone processing. Although it wasn’t intentional, this work of her’s has influenced me in my processing of this image I call “Anticipation” where three girls wait for their grandmother to buy some mini donuts at the night market. Last week also happened to be my final online Black and White class with David Nightingale where we learned about this split tone technique.
If you popped by my blog yesterday, you might have noticed I also used this same technique to process my Musquem House Post image but with a different colour choice. I am really excited to explore this as a way of expressing more in my images and at the very least the class has me going back to refine many of my earlier black and white conversions. I can’t say enough about David Nightingale as a photography instructor. He puts out quality products through Chromasia Training and I have no reservations recommending his Black and White course on PPSOP and on Udemy. Today though I’ll let you be the judge of my efforts over the last four weeks as I share my original colour image as well as my black and white conversion below.
What do you think of each of these versions? Do you have a favourite? I know I do 
Sabrina on
Didn’t anyone ever tell you never to bisect an image right down the middle????!
I know! Crazy that I have to break the rules to find a balance
Crrrrrrazyyyyyy…..!
Ooooh!
At the office I create a lot of the external powerpoint material for the project I’m on – and it always thrills me to see when someone has picked up one of my slides, altered it slightly, to make it theirs, and put it in a new setting.
I get the same kind of feeling when seeing this image.
And of course – even if we have an indian summer in Oslo at the moment – the mornings are getting chillier – now you have made me look forward to pondering the streets in foul weather again
-Eli
I’m pleased you enjoyed the image Eli. And yes, I’m a bit of a stickler when it comes to acknowledging the contribution of others to my work (especially having been denied that quite a bit recently).
And now you have me hoping for bad weather in Olso sooner rather than later so you can add to the series!
I love the look of longing on the smallest girl’s face. I’ve seen that look before.
I’m surprised to see how much the duo tone changes the mood of the image. It seems like just the right treatment for this one. Thank you for the recommendation of David Nightingale’s class. I’ll have to check that out. Loving this night market series, Sabrina!
I could have spent the whole night at that donut stand, Dorothy. I remember it at the beginning of the summer when no-one stopped by and now it’s one of the busiest places.
Between you and me Dorothy, these “singles” from the night market won’t be part of my overall story. Hopefully I have enough of some other work to pull together something cohesive so stay tuned.
My favorite is the one with duo tone processing. On the color image, the bright clothing detracts from the expressions on human faces, and they are the main subject of the image, I think. The black and white, while adresses the above issue, lack something. I have the same feeling often when I look at my black and white images. At first I thought it is a contrast, like there is too much grey- if you introduce duotone, the opposite colors add that contrast. But I am not sure. Duo tone it is
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I wondered if anyone would pick the duo tone, Iza and why. There is something about the creamy warmth of that version that seems to go with the subject matter even though the blue tone can be cool. The more I play around with this technique, the more I like it.
You know, I actually thought that the blue tone works perfect for the the night scene! I just accepted yellow as a contrast
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I like the top one
I flicked back and forth so many times on this. I actually have to stay on the fence and say I like both the duo and colour versions. Each have different characteristics which make them equally charming.