Tone - Image Bank

This image uses both light and dark tones to bring focus to the face of the lion. The light is coming in from the right of the image, highlighting the lion's face and therefore creating dark shadows on the mane. Also, where the light is reflecting directly onto it's face, it creates darkness in between it's nose and its eye, creating a contour.

The dark tones in the background of the image make the person's shirt seem almost a pure white, contrasting against the wall and therefore making it stand out and so is the subject of this image. the light is coming from both above and face on, as the darkness creeps up the wall but the man has no dark tones, which means there is light shining on him.

I like this image as the tones on the foreground of the image are all dark, whereas the background of the sky is almost pure white, making the tree/grass appear darker. This give a silhouette feel to the image, making the tree seem like simply a shadow. I also like how the light shines through the branches on the tree, creating lighter patches on the grass.

Much like the last image, the foreground of this is almost completely black and so, against the lighter toned background, appears like a silhouette in the image. But, with this image, I like how the light shines around the hook and so creates very thin, but noticeable, lines of light going around the hoop.

I chose to include this in my tone image bank, as I feel it is a very good example of tone when using colour. Although it is in colour, the boot is black and so you can clearly see where the light shines on the folds in the material and doesn't reach the part that it touching the floor, making that section so dark that you cannot see detail. You can also see the different tones on the floor as it has clearly been raining, so the wet, shiny floor reflects the light.

I like this image as, where the land is a silhouette, you can't see where it finished and the reflective surface starts, so it appears to be continuous. I also like how, where the image is reflecting onto the surface, it has changed the sky to a darker colour, allowing us to infer that the surface may have been slightly coloured.