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Shooting a tone-based subject

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Shooting a tone-based subject

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I have been really concentrating on the good light situation here, on this trestle with the sun going down and the long shadows and the nice highlights, but here off to the side, there is something very interesting, which is an area of really bad light, but there's something that I think that I can do with it, and there it's something tonal. If I look here, I've got this green lawn going out to the sea and cutting across is this winding path of sand, which is very light, and then I've got those backlit bushes back there, and then the ocean and the sky-- all of it in shade, so I've got no contrast on it. But if I'm thinking like a black-and-white shooter, what I'm seeing, if I remember, any color here can be any tone that I want. So I've got all this green, and I've got some blue. What if I toned this green really dark, so I've got this dark field with this white line snaking across of it? I've also got the stone circle that might light up, and then I've got the blue sky behind those…

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