Gritty/Glitzy/Gloomy/Ghostly Assignment

Glitzy

Original

I took this photo thinking of glitzy portraits. I chose to use colored eye shadow. 

Edited

I chose to crop out the nose and enhance each color with the color levels in photoshop. I also chose to darken the the blacks which brought focus  to the eyes and increased the focus on the bright eye make-up. 

Ghostly

Original

I took this photo by lighting pieces of paper on fire and letting them burn in an antique ashtray. I used a tripod and a slow shutter speed.

Edited

Originally I intended these photos to be gritty. However, when I began to edit these photos I noticed that some of the shapes in the fire looked ghost like. I enhanced these shapes by converting the photo into black and white. Elevating the levels of white and increasing the level of contrast. However, the first edit had too much glare due to the contrast, so I changed the tone curves to decrease the over the top glare.