Challenge #11 - Hidden Text

This one is the final product. Scroll down to see the process from original photo to end product.


The initial photo was taken just prior to my final photo class this week. I got one of the girls from my class to (reluctantly) pose for it. Her facial expression is pretty darn good.

The first step was a crop to make the photo square, and a little touching up here and there. The binary code was redone, since I didn't have a lot of time to shoot and it was out of focus in the original. To do this, I had to mask the original with a separate layer and then add the new test over top of the mask.
The second step was to convert the photo to B&W (appropriate, since my class was all in B&W). However, part of what we learnt was not to just accept a print that was converted from colour to black and white, since a good B&W print is more than just removing the colour....

So to get from the print above to the final product, I burned in the darker areas to give it a little more depth. I thought about dodging on her face, but it never looked right.

That's it! Now for the challenge.... what does the secret message say???

:)
C.