I wanted to give some variety to the photos I have already edited by using inspiration from Walker Evans to show the black and white effects he used in his work.

still life –

The objects I used for this image definitely gave me the feeling of nostalgia and age, so I wanted to accentuate that by giving it a black and white feeling to it. I lowered the contrast and reduced the vibrancy by changing the shadows and highlights to give the black and white effect.

I also put a mask over the photo to make the black and white feel more retro and older. I wanted to change the warm lighting used in the original photo without using one of my cool lighted photos, so I did this by adding this mask over the photo.

For this photo, I did somewhat the same thing as the Still Life photo but instead of heightening and lowering the shadows and highlights, I found a more prominent black and white mask to go over the photo.

I did however change the clarity of the photo making it slightly higher to give the photo some definition. After adding the mask, I was playing around with the highlights and lowlights again and decided to heighten the highlights slightly just to make the photo a little bit lighter.