Photography
Laura McDonald




Step by step guide
Step One
Step Two
Step Three
Original Image
For my first step, I converted the photograph to black and white as I thought that the photograph would look better without colour and emotion.
Doing this gave the photographgave a higher contrast, a concealed, hidden mood, more outlined texture and darker shadows.

Secondly, I lightened the shadows by a percentage, darkened the highlights and turned up the contrast.
This defined the model's face more and gave some feathers a lighter shading.
For my last step, I adjusted the levels.
This gave the photograph a darker tone and brought out he texture in the feathers more.
It lightened some areas of the photograph so that it wasn't too dark.
In this photograph I like how only half of the model's face is covered in feathers which is more interesting.
I also like how it's close up but not too close up and the focus and the texture right.