Practicing Editing Images

Todays task was that we had to find a photograph from the image which we liked and try and replicate it.
I find an image which was a close up portrait image of a woman. When I had taken my images which I was going to edit to make the replica of the original image, I had to change the image into black and white. I had a bit of trouble with trying to match the overall tone of the image, an also had trouble trying to match the contrast with the images as the image I had taken, the contrast was sharper than the original. Also, I had to try and crop the image so it had the same area in the image, which I found hard as I didn't get the shape of the head as well as I could of, which made it harder to crop to the right size.

This is the original image: 

I really like this image because it focused on just the face and I liked how it wasn't just a plain face, the hair covered parts of the face which expanded the range of tones used in the image.

This is my version of the image:

To make this image better, I would of changed the lighting used as we used a beauty dish light whereas in the original they used just a normal light which reflects in the eye. Also, the tones in the images are different as the image I edited is much lighter whereas the tone in the original is a bit darker meaning the overall image was darker. Compared to my image, the original is different because the angle of the image which it was taken was taken from just slightly below the line of the face as the woman looks as if she is looking up and away from the camera, whereas my image is taken face on. I also tried to add shadows to the edge of the face which would represent the shadows which are on the original. 

If I had to do it again, I would try and read more into the original image as I missed out on quite a few details such as where the hair lies over the left eye, as it covers but also creates a gap so you can see the eye through the hair, also how the image is taken and what angle I would need to take the image at.

Overall, I'm quite pleased with this image as its the first replication of an image I have done and now I know what I've done wrong I know what I need to do for my final replicated image.