These are my five black and white edits for Assignment #1. I enjoyed working on this, but I found that the bricks in the foreground presented challenges that I didn't consider when I took the exposure. It was both fun and frustrating to make sure that area looked the way I wanted it to in each edit.
I was trying to make this one look like a brighter, sunnier day. It required some dodging in the lower left because the bricks weren't showing the light source very well.
I made this edit particularly dark, so I thought it might look interesting if it were cool toned. When I added the cool tone settings to the image, I really enjoyed the effect, so I exported it.
In this image I was trying to mimic how I remember photos in the darkroom looking when I had a 4.5 filter in the enlarger. I pushed the levels to mostly pure black and pure white with few grays in between. It looks similar to my "perfect" edit, but the contrast is even higher.
In this edit, I wanted to make the image more "moody". I grayed down all of my whites by chaging the output level of white in "Levels" and adjusted the levels so there were more dark grays.
This image is the one that I feel is the "perfect" one. It has the amount of contras that I wanted and reflects what I found interesting when I took the photograph because the railing stands out nicely from the darker background.
This is the original color photo. I liked the way the sun was shining brightly on the railing while there spaced behind it were mostly dark and I felt like I could make an interesting b&w image out of this composition.
