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Eighty
To celebrate my father's eightieth birthday, I photographed him and gave him a framed portrait, which now hangs in the living room.
Although the original image was captured in full colour, I had decided I wanted a monochrome portrait.
There is simply something timeless and classic about monochrome, which focusses the attention on the subject and the form, rather than on the colour - in a portrait of this sort, even although it is not entirely formal, the colur can prove to be a distraction.
Working in Photoshop initially, the colours was removed using a channel mixer layer; this allowed some fine tuning of the tones of the image - simply removing the colour using the desaturation tool results in a very flat and dull image, which was not what I wanted.
After this, I adjusted the tones using adjustment layers for levels and curves to really make the image 'pop'.
The final stage was to flatten the image before removing one or two minor blemishes, then cropping the image to a square format, which I thought suited the image quite well.
The end result was a semi-formal portrait with which I was pleased and which my father liked.
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