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Black and White Portrait (2)
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When I first published this on flickr a friend suggested it would look better in black and white than in the original colour. So that’s what I tried. I quite liked the result, but for this version I have cropped it square since the background didn’t seem to add anything and in any case I felt her face was slightly wrongly positioned in the frame. I also ran it through Noise Ninja set at maximum, and then Topaz Adjust Strong HDR setting. Finally using a mask in Photoshop I brought back the smoothed skin and background. I hope you like the result which I think is even more “raw and edgy”. IMG_4283