Exercise: Strength of Interpretation.

The idea of this exercise is to take two photographs and create two different effects one in colour and one in black and white.

This first photograph was taken along the Thames not far from the London eye, it was quite a bright day when I took this. 
I increased the contrast as much as I could and when I looked at the raw conversion it was possible to see the clipped shadow highlights around the folds in the fabric, detail was also lost in the facial features, I tried to increase the clarity to see if it was possible to compensate for this but it didn't really make that much of a difference.

The black and White conversion I did using just the raw settings. Firstly I de saturated to remove the colour and then checked for shadow clipping, I noticed that this was more evident in the black and white photograph, I did however notice that the main focal point ie the 'statue' looks more pronounced.
for the high key versions I again chose I photograph from a recent trip to London, this time it was taken from the London eye.

I adjusted the clarity in raw then opened the photograph in elements and used levels to make the adjustments.

for the high key Black and white conversion I adjusted the clarity in raw then opened it in elements, I then used enhance remove colour and did the final adjustments in levels. I like this photograph it has an almost misty look about it that seems to suit the subject.