Black and white photography. Gotta love it. With an absence of color the mind can concentrate on shapes, shades and contrast.
But you can do more than just remove color from a photo. You can tint the monochrome to a slight color, brown to give an aged look, blue to give a cold look. Or split-tone. This is a way of tinting highlights and lowlights to a subtle color. Back in the olden days of film, it would be accomplished by using different chemical baths that reacted differently depending how exposed the print was. Digitally, it’s much easier and less smelly. In this case I’ve tinted the highlights to blue and the lowlights to red.
See how the dark clouds around the edge have a slight red tinge and around the cross are more blue? Neat huh? It adds more dynamic to an otherwise monochrome image.
Here are two more:
