Split Toning

Some of the so-called film look of movies has intrigued me, since they create an atmosphere or specific time period to better portray the story. In my exploration of style journey I was drawn to this element. For some reason I am drawn to the “blue-ish” cinema look of the latest Hobbit movie, The Battle of the Five Armies. I’ve included a photo from the movie of Bilbo Baggins (credit is from Warner Brothers Movies).

I assume this blue effect was created with a filter (I will have to research this further), but for me to create this look the quickest I could think of was split-toning. So, that is what I did in a creative fashion in this photo of a barn at Sugarbush Farm in Woodstock, VT.