Wanting to convey "blue" in a B&W photo???

[stradibarrius]

A local phot challenge is to convey the color "blue" in a B&W photo. There are obvious things such as taking a shot of the word blue or a photo of the blue sky on a sunny day but what about some other ideas??? I have a shot I took of a tree in an open pasture during a snowstorm. Is there a way to print it and give the print a steely cold blue tint???

Thanks for any help or ideas...

[C. D. Keth]

If you want to be literal, yes, there are cold toners for silver papers and you could also print in cyanotype.

[stradibarrius]

The concept does not have to be interpreted literally. I could try to photograph someone who looked "blue" or down in the dumps...or maybe a score from a "blues" tune...any other ideas?

[C. D. Keth]

Is there something you do when you're in a down mood? The objects and setting of that kind of "ritual" may make a good photograph.

[Peter Lewin]

You could take a photograph of a dog, and super-impose it with the lyrics from the folk song "Had a dog and his name was Blue, bet you $5 he was a good dog too..."

[stradibarrius]

Christopher...thanks for trying to HELP me think this through. When I read your post immediately I had a couple of ideas spring to mind.

[Vaughn]

One can make a quick blue toner using the same chemicals one uses for cyanotypes. I use to have the formula, but our new photo professor just threw 90% our photo books in the dumpster and the garbage truck came before I could rescue them.

But I'll see if I can track it down -- I might have a copy of the book at home (a reference book from the early part of the 20th Century)

[emh]

...our new photo professor just threw 90% our photo books in the dumpster...
Now, that makes me blue...

[jeroldharter]

Maybe you could take a photo of photography books and analog photo equipment in a dumpster, one straight and one cyanotype! Blue and bluer.

[John O'Connell]

Gold toner.

[Peter De Smidt]

Make a lith print ala Tim Rudman and tone in gold toner. The blue color is delicate and exquisite.

[sanking]

If you can print digitally you could shoot the scene in digital IR and then do a swap color in channels to get a very blue sky with otherwise monochrome scene.

http://www.lifepixel.com/tutorials/infrared-photoshop-videos

Sandy

[Peter De Smidt]

Show someone who's unhappy or someone playing the blues. You could also be risque, as in a comedienne who's routine is a bit blue.