In this assignment I will post two images in which I adjusted the color by allowing the full tonal expansion as is when I shot it, and the second image has a more restricted tonal expression. I intended to show how the mood suddenly changed. In these two cases, the color spectrums were manipulated just to see whether my intent to show the viewer different moods did exactly just that. The photos were shot with a phone camera that surprisingly picked up the colors well. But to my surprise, adjusting the colors thru different slider buttons changed the feeling out there. Again the subject still is the reflected light. Once again the Ipad has software that allows this to happen in post. It’s still new to me to learn about what I intended to communicate.I now notice the sudden changed in mood when I adjusted the tones. One feels sorta late afternoon toward evening but the second one goes even later.

@Almerinda Alves van der Giezen Wow! we are learning!

This is again the same subject; light. However I decided to limit the spectrum of color to a more bluish tone to change the warmth of the previous photo of light to a colder feeling. I attempted to compress the tones to exclude the red spectrum and leave a lesser amount of color .It now communicates more loneliness as I intended.

I have been researching the advantages of both color and B&W photography. It was quite a eye opener. I now understand that B&W brings out certain features such as texture, shades, feeling when color could be a distraction . Then color strikes us emotionally when used effectively as in certain examples. Online there were photos using both styles and I admit, I have been a bit blind on the beauty of both styles. Incidentally our eyes in dim light do not see color too well. In ideal conditions of light , color is noticeable. There is much for me to explore in both styles.

Researching tonal compression and tonal expansion in photography, I find that tonal compression is reducing the contrast, and tonal expansion is heightening the contrast? A lot seems to apply to photoshop. Is that oversimplification of the definitions?

I regret i didn’t get a real fresh shot of a bus stop but I did many years ago in San Francisco near the SF Zoo. The first shot is the original, full spectrum unedited. The second photo, I started editing out what I thought were distracting elements. I wanted just to concentrate on the lighting and the bus stop. I left the tonal expression a little compressed but not by much. It left a warm summer night feeling which I wanted. I had to admit I have never played around too much with tonal editing till now. The third photo shows a more compressed tonal expression. The red spectrum was constrained and moved to a colder feeling. It definitely feels like winter and its a good try I think with playing with the concept of tonal expansion or tonal compression. I hope I am getting it. I know if I understood Photoshop at all, I could spend time with playing with tone curves .The intention with the editing was to bring out the feeling of isolation, then the emotional feeling and hopefully tell a story with the photo if viewed separately, a night by the bus stop.

I wanted to show light coming through a curtain at a certain time of day. I wanted a feeling of isolation along with a feeling of peace. However if I play around with the contrast I either let more grey tones in that changes the mood or exclude them that makes it more dark in mood. In this photo there seems to be a darker mood, definitely more isolated feeling, more loneliness in it. However on second thought it seems also mysterious in feeling. That was my intent during post editing. By the way this was shot with just a phone camera and edited with an Ipad, a probably not very sophisticated tool to begin with.

Here I let in more grey tones in and the mood is much lighter in feeling. Isolation is still there but not as moody as the first one. The intent here with this shot and the subject is still the light is to give a more lighter or dreamy pleasant feeling here. I guess one can say I am using more tonal expansion to express feelings.

just trying this out, i decided on bw since my hall might more distracting.i was more interested in the shape and shiny essence of the chair plus its shadows on the rug.i think i need more room or space for the chair. btw, i chose an ordinary chair so i could concentrate on the essence of a chair.

Here is a chair in its honesty, perhaps a working person chair, or a sloppy person, a chair that doesn’t convey comfort but more of convenience. Like a clothes rack a place to dump things onto. I notice there’s no hiding whats on the chair, hastily thrown clothes , even underwear. This image talks truth, honesty and no shame, just what would be private now fully exposed. The lighting is bright, exposure to the max, no attempt to add more exposure of the room in the image. Instead just concentration on the chair and its contents. Certainly a stark contrast to “ House Beautiful” settings. This image talks truth in seeing. Thats what matters most in the frame, the chair as convenience, as a non chair at its best.