Re: Fun with the Sony A7 Series Cameras( all of them)
IMO the Secret Garden series is an exceptional accomplishment! I hope you'll shoot more there, not because the images you've shown so far are inadequate, but because it seems to be one of those 'magical places' whose potential takes time to fulfill.
As to toning, it's a pleasure to see so much experimentation. But my idea - if you don't mind my planning your future for you - is to pick the one toning that works best for the series, and make a lovely portfolio box that opens to reveal the Secret Garden. (Going all the way: perhaps the cover is bookbinder's cloth that matches or complements the toning.)
Or maybe you'd already thought of something like that, without needing my encouragement/interference?
Just my three cents/thruppence; apologies if overbearing.
Kirk
Thank you Kirk you are very kind , I never find you overbearing but instead always helpful, insightful and encouraging + You are of course right in this instance, I should have perhaps stuck with one kind of toning so the series flowed harmoniously a bit better...Truth be told, I do like experimenting as you may have gathered by now
I like seeing what does and doesn't work + The fact I have myself a new PC and monitor after many years of living in the dark ages so to speak, I can now see some of my shortcomings of what I was doing wrongly in the past (typically over sharpening and some really weird colour images...I'm sure it was pretty obvious to others but I was pretty much blissfully unaware up to a certain point)...The Eizo makes a BIG difference to me, in how I now process my images and goes some way to helping with my red and green colour blindness.
Your 35mm and 50mm fast WO B&W images have encouraged me to shoot a bit more WO in the landscape rather than always automatically stop down the aperture, which is what I have been doing for many years now...It doesn't always work but sometimes it does!...which is when I find it gratifying...Thanks
I have punched up the colours and stopped down the aperture in the shot below, so that one maybe not to your liking...Cheers Barry
Strolling down a Devonshire country footpath