Hi Ashley. a difficult one. My opinion, others I am sure will for sure disagree, There's too much dark distraction for effective hi-key. While the histogram is strongly skewed to the right, as for hi-key, the strong black on the right distracts me, as do the current vignettes on the white especially up to the right. The child I think after all is the subject. I'd try to move her a little off center. I'd actually try to even out the tones on this one, at least this shot. I know that's perhaps not what you were after. I'd try to blur the background more (a layer of blur and mask out the child with a heavily feathered mask. And remove any stray strands still remaining on the frame. I'd drop the highlights in the background too. All that is easiest done with a camera raw filter if in PS, or in LR if you can. Of course, I always add a slight warming tone to all my B&W.s
@frankhymus And thank you! I very much appreciate your help, and hope you understand how limited my time has been lately to do much more than I've done. Hopefully I can do more now that my work schedule has changed to almost nothing. Twin toddlers is a LOT of work!!!
Here's what I came up with operating only on the small jpeg. https://www.dropbox.com/s/sfb1lvi887amuda/6914469_egiluwz016_l.jpg?dl=0
Like I said, IMO. I just don't think that this frame can be effectively forced for a pure hi-key.
Thanks for taking the time to ask...