Technically I took this photo on manual mode with my camera, I was using a slow shutter speed of 1/125, and had my ISO also low, and my white balance on daylight mode due to using box lighting on a soft sunlight type setting.

For the concept of this image I wanted to represent that Joan has seen and experienced a lot, and so I wanted to make this photo look more dramatic than some of my other more lighthearted finals. I did this by editing the image into black and white, using Adobe Lightroom Classic, and also using the ‘Sharpening – Light’ setting. I think that this was effective in achieving the aim of the image as as well as looking more dramatic, the black and white represented Joan’s age because during that era black and white photos would’ve been all that they had. Joan is also positioned in a way where she is not looking directly at the camera with quite a numb expression on her face, this added to the ‘drama’ and showed the viewer that she could possibly be quite unhappy.