1. The model that I used for this shoot had a nose piercing, however this was not common in the 1910s. To resolve this issue, I used the spot healing brush to remove this from the image.
2. In order to adjust the levels of light and contrast within my image, I first use the 'levels' tool and drag the arrows across the bottom of the grid further towards the middle. This made the dark portions of my image darker, whilst still bringing more vibrance and light into the lighter toned areas (for example, her face).
3. To intensify the contrast in the image, I use the brightness/contrast tool. Bringing up both the brightness and the contrast created a large amount of contrast and exposure in the photo, however this is the effect that I wanted to create as this would make the tones in the image quite stark when I turned it to black and white.
4. To give the image a grainy look, I used the 'add noise..." tool and added an amount of 49.5% grain. The reason that I added so much grain compared to my 1950s and preparatory shoots is that I found there was a lot more grain in images from the 1910s than what I was adding, and so I decided that by adding more it would make the image more accurate to the era.
5. I wanted the noise to be diffuse and look more like a soft grain that noise, and so to do this I added a gaussian blur. Not only did this give the effect that I wanted for the noise, it also softened the whole image and made it less sharp, which helped to give the old/vintage effect that I was trying to create. Alfred Cheney Johnston's images has a very soft focus and I wanted to recreate this in my images.
6. After this, I use the 'Black & White' tool to make the image black and white. This tool allows the user to control the different tones in the image, and so I used this option to create a bit more contrast. Previously I had done this step prior to adding noise and a gaussian blur, however this introduced some colour back into the image as the noise had colour. Learning from this, I decided to carry out this step after adding noise.
7. When researching images from the 1910s, I found that a lot of photographs had a yellow tint to them rather than being purely black and white. I wanted to add this to my images as I felt it made them look quite interesting and unique. In order to do this, I added a yellow photo filter to the photo. I added this at a density of 25% so that it was not too strong, however you could still see the colour and, when compared to my black and white 1950s shoot, there is a clear difference between the two.
8. Finally, I decided to add a vignette to the image as I wanted the outer portions of the image to be darker. This would also help to darken the background and therefore bring full attention towards the model's face in the centre of the frame.
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