black and white and polaroid all over

this is the original, a Polaroid SX-70 shot that i scanned. no cleanup has been done on the image.



and this is a black and white version.


here i used a combination of a gradient layer and a channel mixer layer. in the channel mixer i tried to pump up the reds and blues to increase the contrast and get that "tunnely" (dark) look around the edges. it's interesting to see these side by side, because i thought that with a polaroid, it would automatically look decades older in black and white. but i'm not quite sure that's the case. i'm still trying to figure out how the "meaning" or impression of the picture changes in black and white, especially taking into consideration the added aged or nostalgic effect that Polaroids already impart to a viewer.