Comments on this picture. Photoshop editing applied to give a selenium tone. . .

[episodic]

http://images18.fotki.com/v86/photos/9/979111/4021132/redsun-vi.jpg

I really like this - and was wondering what your thoughts were.

I love technical criticism and praise all the same. . .

 

[xtknight]

I'm not too crazy about that one in particular. Half of the image is black. Is that from the effect or is it the picture itself? Can you explain 'selenium tone'?

 

[EyeMWing]

Don't particularly care for it.

 

[Cattlegod]

it looks like the sun is an error state of film development, rather than the center piece of the image.

 

[Eli]

A "selenium" tone?

Is that a real term? LOL

 

[Pepsi90919]

sucfks

 

[mugs]

What the hell does selenium mean?

 

[Xyo II]

Originally posted by: mugs
What the hell does selenium mean?

apparently...

edit: or, a nonmetallic element chemically resembling sulfur and tellurium, occurring in several allotropic forms, as crystalline and amorphous, and having an electrical resistance that varies under the influence of light

 

[NoShangriLa]

Selenium is a photographic chemical (toner) that is use to replace silver halide in fiber papers (less effective in resin coated papers) to prolong the life of the prints (archival process that prevent fading) during the bleaching process, and it inherit the brownish tone shift of selenium characteristic.

The colour shift of the OP image is a weak shift that can be correlates to RC paper bleaching or equivalent to incomplete bleaching fiber papers.

 

[PurdueRy]

Selenium = underexposure apparantly

 

[CarlKillerMiller]

It's all right, I suppose. My biggest beef with it is that there's no "why" for the image. I'm sure that anyone that looks at it has seen that same scene dozens of times while walking around outside. In fact, I'd say that the selenium tone actually detracts from the natural beauty of the sun.

 

[kmrivers]

I dont like it

 

[SWScorch]

I, for one, like it, except I can see dithering or whatever it's called in the sky. The "selenium" tone gives it a bleak, rather lonely appearance that would be suited for the cover of an Opeth album.