Tone Theory *MOST CRITICAL* Tip in Photography
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The difference between a good photo and a PHENOMENAL photo rests in one critical place, the TONES.
The tones in your photo do so many important things and strongly influence your viewer’s experience. Your tones are responsible for (but not limited to):
♠ How your image will be received within the first few seconds of viewing
♠ How your viewer navigates throughout your image
♠ How vibrant or drab your colors will be
♠ How balanced your photo will appear from a distance
If you REALLY want to grip your viewer, you need to do it with your tones.
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Blake trust me when I say this which is pretty loud... "I AM GRATEFUL THAT I ACCIDENTALLY FOUND YOUR AMAZING CHANNEL (which I subscribed immediately) AND STARTED LEARNING SEVERAL MIND-BLOWING THINGS WHICH I'VE SEEN NO ONE ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT, EVEN THESE SO CALLED BIG TH-camRS!"
So Thanks ones again and this one was much needed as you urself mentioned at the beginning.
I am now into recreating some of my thumbnails and this topic what you shared here today is GOLD.
So,God bless you...
And lots of love from India 🙏🏻
Thank you so much, man I am getting all choked up here :) I appreciate your awesome feedback, it really means the world to me. Wow!
you explained this so well. Thank you!
You're absolutely correct! Very critical tip.The best piece of info I've seen on YT in a while. Thank you Blake! Now, I have to put this into my work flow. Another journey ahead of me.
Awesome, thank you! Glad you liked it as well ;)
This came at just the right time. I was looking for a way to work on my tones and this came in the email 👌 Great work and thanks for your excellent videos Blake 🤗🌸
Extreamlly useful (and non technical) tool for both analysis and building a stronger visual message. Thank you.
As a commercial photographer with 50 years of experience, seldom do I find a TH-cam video that can actually teach me anything, but I just found one. I even ordered the course. Thanks for an informative video.
Oh wow!!! Thank you so much, man, your feedback and support means a ton to me.
Masterfully explained. All good points and points that need to be instilled over and over so it comes second nature. Thanks!
This is something I was trying to explain to my assistant the other day, you said and demonstrated it so eloquently...thank you so much.
Wonderful! That's awesome! Glad I can help :)
Blake, this is going to be an useful tool. My wife (full time artist, oil painter) and I (snapshots) spend a fair amount of time critiquing each others work. Sometimes after looking at the same image for an extended period of time comments meant to be objective become subjective. We tried the "action" and it brought an objective third party view into the conversation. A tool! Thanks
That is awesome!
Blake that was a great explanation and easy way to evaluate an image. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it! I have been using this technique non-stop lately and LOVE it. I hope it helps you as well ;)
Thank you for the very helpful useful information. Will come in very handy for me, as I start studying photograph at university this year, as a mature student.
And your creative tool/action is genius thank you again
You're very welcome! All my sincere pleasure!
Best advice in making a photo I've heard in a long time, many thank's.
Sweet! Thanks for watching!
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT VIDEO AND INFORMATION!!!!!!!!! thanks for sharing!!!! Blessings to you!!!!!
Thank you! It's my sincere pleasure!
Nice job Professor “C”. Always nice to see an obscure PS tool being used in a cool way. I am looking forward to the Game of Tones course, which I’ll be working thru soon, and have seen several posts on the FB group from some who are already using the techniques.
Thanks! It's a pretty awesome course 😁
What a great tip to share with everyone, I recently learned this when taking a workshop with Marc Adamus who uses light in his processing just exactly as you described. Such a strong tool for creating dynamic images.
Thank you for this simple PS trick Blake! I learned about toning from you on Nick Page's podcast 2 years ago, which I find extremely valuable. I'm editing my photos from my latest trip to Switzerland a few weeks back, and I couldn't get the current photo to where I want it to be. Until I saw this video. Thanks a million and keep doing what you do! You make the world of photography a better place 💚
That's awesome! I'm just glad it helped.
TOP Video! Thank you!
Thank you!
Great information, thanks
My sincere pleasure!
As someone from KC I love the Kansas City attire. Just recently stumbled across your account and I’m going through all your videos 🙏🏼
Woot! I love KC, best city in America 😁 nice to see another Kansas Citian!
Great information!
Have a nice weekend!
Same to you
excellent tutorial Blake and explanation of a sub-conscious action we undertake when looking at an image
Thank so much 😁 glad you liked it.
This is incredible information Blake! Now to see what I've been doing wrong in my images 🤣
Happy to help! So crazy when you see how your images translate into a view. This blew my mind when I accidentally happened upon it.
Very nice, thanks 👌
My pleasure!
Thank you Blake, Wow you got me thinking " I could be a painter" :)
Go for it! I learned so much from my painting days. It has helped tremendously with my photography ;)
Awesome video-- as you always do. I learn so much from you about Photoshop.
As a portrait guy I tend to instinctively find faces and people first though, not random, broad patches of sheer brightness.
That was true of the paintings with people, and especially your (fantastic!) portrait of Pete. That's a great portrait. I immediately see Pete's face, though and the bright patch is just kind of something I block out and ignore (at least initially).
In the end, though, it all comes together and that environmental portrait looks great.
Yes! Absolutely! Also text, those are two things that we connect with quickly. But those are more like elements in the scene. Tone, color, composition, those are technical aspects.
But I am with you.
Excellent advice, been studying the great landscape painters of the past for a few years.
Excellent, great source of inspiration :)
@@f64Academy Recommended this video to several folks, as I think this is one of your best tips to help folks with crafting there composition to draw the eye to the main attraction in the image like the great master painters of the past have done!!! In turn I hope it brings sales of your course on the subject.
Very interesting, and a good tool for doing analysis of masterworks to learn from as well. My question is at what point in the workflow would you use this? Since its in photoshop, I presume you'd have already done all the ACR things, by which time the light is pretty well set, which is where I get confused.
I use it all throughout my workflow to gauge the flow of the image, turn it on and look, turn it off and work under it, then turn it on to see how you are progressing. All after raw processing.
Hi Blake! This is a great way to analyze an image, and iteratively direct the edits. What are the tradeoffs in using this technique/action for tone sculpting, vs. luminosity masks?
Luminosity masks are primarily for separating tones in your image. So you can still use them with these techniques.
@@f64Academy Cool and thanks for the clarification.
I've known about this effect/technique for at least two decades. A friend of mine gave me a book about it. This is why photographers use vignettes and the dodge and burn tools. The human eye generally starts at top left and travels down in a "Z" direction. Cool trick with the posterization effect though.
Very true but really good time control goes well beyond vignettes 😁 the posterization technique is the key to seeing the effectiveness of your tones, bw just isn't enough. Too busy.
I've got the full course and have slowly worked through and seen some great results. But I have a question and I can't make the webinar Q+A session. How does Game of Tones and IP2 fit together in a workflow? Or is it a case of you do one or the other?
You use the knowledge in Game of Tones all the time, regardless of where you work. But the actions you'd use in Photoshop only and IP2 in ACR or Lightroom
I’m currently binging your channel. I’d like to sign up for some courses but have a question. I am a bit confused, if I purchase the monthly sub, do I have access to all the courses? Or still purchase those separately and just access to the community.. thank you!
Thanks! You'll have access to all the f64 Elite courses. You will not have access to any courses that contain panels, those are premium products, but any course labeled f.64 Elite in the shop you have access to.
I love your tutorial but my eyes went to the people first in both images due to their color popping out at me.
That's all good, different people see things differently.
Agree painting 2 the people have more weight in the image not the sky
what do you mean by composition? can u define it please? THANKS IN ADVANCE.
Composition refers to the elements that make up a photo.
Great video. Thank you... Some of the examples had extreme modifications to tone, when showing these to people what is the defining line between you representing this as a picture you took vs graphic art, a painting, digital painting? Different photographers have different boundaries. Some have none. I am asking this as a sincere question as I am going through that phase now of how far do I want to take it and how will I represent something in an honest fashion. How far do you take it before you make it clear that you are doing graphic art and this truly does not represent what you saw, real life vs fantasy land? A photographer cannot compete with a graphic artist, fantasy world is always better, do I create both depending upon my mood and just be honest about how the picture was made, do I choose to be a photographer with strict limits, do I just say screw and become a graphic artist. There is such a blur in the photography world and a lot of deception at times. Thinking out loud here. What is your opinion?
Great thoughts, but what we saw is never reality. Think about your memories you've shared with others do they ever line up exactly? No, because everyone perceives everything differently.
At the end of the day, I'm an artist who uses a camera, not a photographer. Therefore, I give myself permission to explore any scene as I please. No one is holding me accountable to photo documentation of a scene, therefore, I build that scene as an experience for my viewer. I show them what I want them to feel, not what I think the scene should look like.
Experiences are much more memorable than pictures. I want my viewers to experience the places I've visited. So I honestly do not care of I make the scene an accurate representation 😁. It's a liberating feeling being an artist, you leave the worries of the photographer to the photographer 😁
@@f64Academy thank you very much for your outlook, good insights there, I will ponder it more. Appreciate you taking the time, sincerely.
No worries! I remember the struggle. I still struggle with it today also.
Blake, couldn't you use a Luminosity Mask to give you a similar result?
Yep, I teach that in my course. But lm's won't give you this assessment.
This is great. But now I'm going to be wasting the rest of my day trying this on a whole bunch of my old images. Work is just going to have to suck it.
Quality name for the coarse 😅
Sometimes you have to get creative 🤣