Tinted

Here are two examples of tinted monochrome images. Tinted monochrome was once a popular and perhaps unavoidable method for adding colour to everyday images. These days tinting is done in the computer and merely as a photographer's conceit.

In fact they are recreations of black and white prints I produced and tinted in the 1990s. I bought a tinting kit at great expense, used it a couple of times, then the inks dried up and times moved on.

As it happens, both of these shots are back lit.  A standard photographer's trick: Using back lighting to photograph glass. Almost any other technique will give you reflections of the light sources. It may be that the reflections can form a useful part of the image but in the case of this wine glass, I wanted to keep it nice and simple. This image was lit using a remote triggered flash unit with several layers of diffuser in front of it. The rest of the room was kept dark.

This image of sliced onion was created on a conventional light box and the peel was tinted in Photoshop. I suspect the subject was fried after the photoshoot...