Assignment #57: Duotone Portrait

Nikolai

Let's make it simple again: I't gotta be a portrait, and it's gotta be a duotone.
There is a catch, though: no black-and-white and no "sepia" are allowed. :deal
Each entry should consist of two images: one original color one (SOOC jpeg or very basic conversion from RAW) and one post-processed into a duotone.
As always, images should be fresh.

Let's get some nice duotone portrait!

Ann McRae

Nikolai wrote:

Let's make it simple again: I't gotta be a portrait, and it's gotta be a duotone.
There is a catch, though: no black-and-white and no "sepia" are allowed.
Each entry should consist of two images: one original color one (SOOC jpeg or very basic conversion from RAW) and one post-processed into a duotone.
As always, images should be fresh.

Let's get some nice duotone portrait!

So, Nik, explain how fresh is fresh? I have a shot from Wednesday that I haven't converted yet, that I might like to try this with.

Nikolai

Ann McRae wrote:

So, Nik, explain how fresh is fresh? I have a shot from Wednesday that I haven't converted yet, that I might like to try this with.

Well, in our class "fresh" means you learn about the assignment first and then shoot with it in mind. The idea is to give people incentive to go out and shoot, not to go through the archives.

You can try to use your Wednesday results, but please be aware there will be no prize for that... Wait a sec... We don't have prizes anyway

So, why don't you start with what you have already, and then maybe shoot more and post the really fresh one?

Izzy Garavito

Hey Nik, no tritones or quadtones, i'm guessing?

Nikolai

Izzy Garavito wrote:

Hey Nik, no tritones or quadtones, i'm guessing?

Not for this one :-)

Antonio Correia

With flash of course !
Two hours ago. May be not that much !

Nikolai

Antonio Correia wrote:

With flash of course ! Two hours ago. May be not that much !

Man.... :bash

...no black-and-white and no "sepia" are allowed...

Antonio Correia

Nikolai wrote:

Man.... :bash

This is no sepia !

Antonio Correia

Antonio Correia wrote:

This is no sepia !

sepia is this.
Mine more redish ! I knew it and was aware of your intention !
May be it's the monitor

Antonio Correia

This is color
This is not black and white

Nikolai

Antonio Correia wrote:

This is not black and white

Thank you!

Now, apart from shifting the Hue slider away from it's default brownish position, how would you justify this particular hue for this particular shot?

Please rememeber: we don't do this just to comply with my (or somebody else's :-) silly rules. We want to improve our skills and vision while staying withing certain parameters.

So, with that in mind: why pinkinsh/purple?

Antonio Correia

Nikolai wrote:

Thank you!

Now, apart from shifting the Hue slider away from it's default brownish position, how would you justify this particular hue for this particular shot?

Please rememeber: we don't do this just to comply with my (or somebody else's :-) silly rules. We want to improve our skills and vision while staying withing certain parameters.

So, with that in mind: why pinkinsh/purple?

Nikolai,
It's not very nice, is it ?
Kind of strange ...

Antonio Correia

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Nikolai

Antonio Correia wrote:

blue tint

*I* like this better!
But I still would love to hear *your* reasoning - why this tint...

Antonio Correia

Nikolai wrote:

*I* like this better!
But I still would love to hear *your* reasoning - why this tint...

No sepia or near, no black and white or near.
Why not any other ?

Izzy Garavito

Here's mine. The eyes are for extra credit lol




Duotone: Brown and Gray





Black and White used:





Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS 30D
Shutter Speed: 1/1600 second
F Number: F/4.0
Focal Length: 28 mm
ISO Speed: 800
Date Picture Taken: Nov 4, 2007, 12:50:15 PM

DavidTO

Izzy, that is not duotone, it's selective color!

A duotone is a black and white image to which another color is added. In PS you first convert an image to grayscale , then to duotone (Mode>Duotone), where you can select the 2nd color and the blend.

i_worship_the_King

that lab is gorgeous! Too bad my australian shepherd is afraid of the shutter click

Izzy Garavito

DavidTO wrote:

Izzy, that is not duotone, it's selective color!

A duotone is a black and white image to which another color is added. In PS you first convert an image to grayscale , then to duotone (Mode>Duotone), where you can select the 2nd color and the blend.

Hey David, tell me if I'm wrong:

This is how I did it:

Mode-greyscale
mode-duotone
load: /presets/duotones/duotones/etc. and chose one. i'll post a B&W Image for comparison.

Is that how you get duotone?

Izzy Garavito

i_worship_the_King wrote:

that lab is gorgeous! Too bad my australian shepherd is afraid of the shutter click

Haha thanks a ton. I had to chase her around for a while before she settled down and I could get a few shots. then she got bored and spread herself on the floor for the pic.

DavidTO

Izzy Garavito wrote:

Hey David, tell me if I'm wrong:

This is how I did it:

Mode-greyscale
mode-duotone
load: /presets/duotones/duotones/etc. and chose one. i'll post a B&W Image for comparison.

Is that how you get duotone?

The eyes are full color, no?

Izzy Garavito

They are. I converted greyscale image to duotone. then I pasted a layer of the full color image underneath the new duotone image, masked the duotone image and just poked holes in the eyes so the color image showed up.

Not sure If it'll be acceptable to Nik But I can just take off the eyes then. Would it qualify without the color in the eyes?

Nikolai

Izzy Garavito wrote:

Would it qualify without the color in the eyes?

Yep :-)

saurora

I used the same steps (I think!) as David, but when I try to save it I can only save it as a PSD file.....what did I do wrong?

P.S. sorry.........used the duotone that Izzy used but converted to grayscale first.....

Izzy Garavito

saurora wrote:

I used the same steps (I think!) as David, but when I try to save it I can only save it as a PSD file.....what did I do wrong?

P.S. sorry.........used the duotone that Izzy used but converted to grayscale first.....

Go Back to Image->modes->RGB

That should do it

NanaMo

First attempt at both Assignments and Duotone.....
The more I get to roam around the forums the more fun topics I find! Here is my first try at both the assignments and duotone......

Black and Pantone 3945 C...hope I did OK also...really looking forward to that big prize!! !!









Click on photos for exif data...oops...my camera is still on Beijing time! Gotta run and fix that....

Thanks,
Maureen

Nikolai

NanaMo wrote:

The more I get to roam around the forums the more fun topics I find! Here is my first try at both the assignments and duotone......

Black and Pantone 3945 C...hope I did OK also...really looking forward to that big prize!! !!

Click on photos for exif data...oops...my camera is still on Beijing time! Gotta run and fix that....

Thanks,
Maureen

Welcome to the Class!
Thank you for the entry!
It's a duotone alright, but I'm having a really hard time calling this image "a portrait"...

NanaMo

Nikolai wrote:

Welcome to the Class!
Thank you for the entry!
It's a duotone alright, but I'm having a really hard time calling this image "a portrait"...

Yes, about 2:45am it dawned on me that I got caught up in learning the process and forgot it should be a portrait duh, .....back to the drawing board. Sounds like you think the process is proper....now I just have to find a face!

Thanks Nik!

Jack'll do

First assignment I'm participating in. What a great way to learn more techniques. I've never done this before so I took some older images of two of our dogs to practice with (will get a "new" portrait tomorrow to submit for the record. Here are the first attempts. I don't like the ilght patch on Barney's cheek. It looks like he has a skin condition which he doesn't, C&C solicited

Nikolai

Thank you Jack!
I take it as a "portrait", but it's too close to sepia to accept it as a valid entry.

saurora

This isn't a valid entry as the shot is not fresh. I shot this a couple of weeks ago. I won't get a chance to shoot before this weekend, I'll try to post another then. But I wanted to try duotone, which I have not done. Well, not with the Photoshop layers. One thing I noticed is that every color from yellow through red makes an image look sepia. All of the blues and cyans made the image look like a black and white. Well, that left pink, purple and green which just don't cut it for me! I wanted something that would enhance my nephew's somber expression, so I used a dark burgundy. I'm not real happy with the outcome...I really prefer the original version. It looks burgundy in my gallery, but I have this feeling by the time it is posted in this thread it will somehow turn sepia!