High Noon

Maybe a little better in sepia.

Thanks Sami.I actually like it in this lighter tone..........the original image was over exposed, hence high key. I was bracketing to see what the best shutter speed was for detail. I have two ways of thinking about sepia. One is that its over used, and I am tending towards copper, or split toning, and shifting away from tones that actually, to my view shift you subconsciously into a space that ho hums the image and maybe we dont see the image as much in an intellectual sense. Sepia is so closely related to historical processes it may shift you into an emotional response that negates the image in a contemporary time space. Because of the high key.......a darker sepia detracted from this image. The lightness here really captures the light. All this being said the tone of an image is so subjective and I actually have to limit myself, because so many tones are beautiful and with less is more totally change the feeling of an image. This bw ish version I love too.......... www.ipernity.com/doc/kiwivagabond/32561367 I think its more a light copper maybe of a light coffee in Nik. And monitors all look different.

Yes, sepia has it's history. What comes to split toning, I prefer to use blueish for light areas (objects far) and copper for dark areas (objects close) like this: www.ipernity.com/doc/serola/32636173

nice image Sami. Really nice. Thanks for sharing.

I tried to find a web page where the logic of this approach of blue for far away things and sepia for objects close were explained. I have noticed many ready made scripts (e.g. scripts for Android phone editors) give the opposite as default: blue for dark and sepia for light.

EDIT: I found my own old article, which I republished at wordpress.com since Opera Community became closed. Here: serola.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/split-toning-using-gradient-map-on-gimp