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I always wonder whether sepia improves an image or not. Beautiful composition here and I like the contrast in the sky (red filter?).

Jay Masimo said:

I always wonder whether sepia improves an image or not. Beautiful composition here and I like the contrast in the sky (red filter?).

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As I gravitate again to monochrome--the place I started--I wage the debate of contrast, detail, histogram, and toning with every creation.

@Gerald Cafferty and several others of our merry group on both sides of the pond have gained a mastery of choosing tone, exposure, and content in a way that conveys a sound feeling of time and place.

In my 'wet' days, the go-to was usually a selenium bath. Or maybe chromium. Various concoctions were available to achieve tones of blue, copper, coffee, sepia, and other effects. We are not even discussing VC papers with dichroic filters...

The great bromide printing papers that made many tones such as this popular in the art scene are now mostly gone. In a whole different method--but actually the same--we now do this sort of thing in digital post process.

I am curious as well. Red filter on the lens, or a red slider on post?

This image transports me to another time in my life, and the hopes and dreams of a portion of it. It holds a certain 'spectral' light that just draws one's thoughts right into it...

Hi Patrick, I don't use coloured filters just the sliders in Lightroom. I do sometimes use an IR filter and have some ND filter that I rarely use, the toning is applied with my own preset.
Thank you and Jay for the comments.