ABSTRACT

After reading Chapters 4 and 5, you’ve likely figured out that the qualities that make for good color in a photograph are a lot like the ones that give a photograph good tonality. A photograph with good color usually has a rich range of values from near-white to near-black; this is what I called the First Rule of Good Tonality in Chapter 5. Somewhere in that color print you’ll find a bit of deep shadow that approaches black and a bit of a highlight glint that approaches white. They aren’t necessarily large or important parts of the photograph, but they’re usually there.