Edited Photographs.

After selecting the best photographs from the photo shoot, I have edited them using Photoshop on the computers in the MAC suite of our building, and selected the final 5 I want to submit for this project. 
I decided to edit the photographs and put them in black and white as I felt it adds extra depth to the images; lowering the saturation of each photograph - putting them in black and white, adds a certain emotion to the images; it seems to create a more nostalgic, warming feel to the photos and I feel it defiantly works well for the mood I wanted to create with my images. The word 'Heart' in the emotional sense is very strong as I looked at in my first blog post and I think the mood I've created by using black and white represents this.

To ensure I had something in each image red - to fore fill the British Heart Foundation's brief - I kept the material heart I made - which was stuck to the bark of a tree - red. I also edited the heart on Photoshop to make it stand out more; I increased the saturation and lightness of the heart on each image, after outlining it using the 'pen' tool, to make the red stronger.

Here are the final 5 photographs I have chosen to represent my project:

To ensure some of the images were different, so when I selected my 5 they weren't all the same and a story is told through the images, I cropped some of the photographs on Photoshop to make them close up, made others into a portrait setting and cropped them too whilst others still are on a landscape setting and in their original state.
This adds a variety to the best photographs I chose and will enable further interest into the images as as a collective they all appear different yet similar in their photographic style.