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Interpretation of tone sandhi nouns

Tone is a term in photography, because photography using light and shadow changes has a visual change of music. For photographic works, "hue" is also called the hue or hue of photos.

Intrinsic meaning:

All colors in nature (that is, intrinsic colors) have three main characteristics: hue, saturation and lightness.

But for black-and-white photos, a variety of visible colors are reflected in black-and-white photos, and only three levels of black, white and gray are formed, and the difference between them is only in brightness, so that the ever-changing colors in nature lose their two most important characteristics-hue and saturation of colors, and only retain brightness (lightness).

Scenery with different brightness changes into corresponding black, white and gray levels, forming a light and dark level. Because we don't have the characteristics of color, we call the tone in black and white photography "shadow tone", which is characterized by showing rich and colorful tones.

Basic factors. It is an important expression means of modeling, composition, setting off the atmosphere and expressing emotions.

Photographic pictures are divided into bright tones, dark tones and intermediate tones according to the brightness and contrast of tones; According to the comparison, it can be divided into hard tone, soft tone and intermediate tone. In the film, these tones are closely combined with the plot content, which can form a general tone tendency: tone.

Tone is an objective representation of object structure, color and light effect, and it is also the result of photographer's creative intention and expression means. The choice of light composition, shooting angle and framing range directly affects the composition of tone.