IT : Photoshop - Retouching my Editorial Images and my choosing final Images

Here is my front editorial show before and after. The before shot isn't the original image as I edited it before the other images and then moved onto editing the side shot but realised they didn't match in colours and temperature. This is why I went back into photoshop with the exact numbers I had changed the temperature and different settings to on the side image as I didn't want them to not match.

Here is the side shot where I found exactly what settings and changes I wanted to make to my images as I now feel looking back at them that it intensified the gobo and how well it is seen. Also I feel it added more colour into my models skin as using the gobo's made her skin tone look quite dull in the images which is something I wanted to avoid but was able to change and improve.

With all three of these images the only changes I needed to make were playing with the colours and the balance of them. I decided to increase the tint, contrast, highlights, blacks, clarity and vibrance the same amount on each of the three images to ensure that all of the colours matched and looked the same as I didn't want one of the images to be warmer then the others as it wouldn't have fit and needs to fit with the set of 3 images. I also decreased the temperature, exposure, shadows, whites and saturation so ensure the images didn't come out too warm.

Here are my final editorial images using a Gobo's. This shoot didn't come out exactly how I wanted/planned for it to but I am still happy with how the images came out as I feel that I was still able to set up the lights and use the Gobo's correctly without the images looking ineffective. However I did struggle to get the pictures to come out how I had planned as the Gobo's wouldn't stay straight and didn't come out as high contrast as I had planned which can be seen through looking at my story boards.