color splash

i've discovered quite a few new photographer blogs that i'm in love with. the images i edited were taken by Jessica Kettle and they are absolutely beautiful and amazing. with me wanting to be a photographer, i really admire jessica's work. most of the things i've seen are of weddings, couples, and her adorably beautiful son. there are quite a few pictures of children and babies as well, which is what i'm most interested in. i love photographing children. the only kids i've really put on a photo shoot with is with sandra, willow, lexie, and brandi. sandra is usually photographed by herself because i'm always at her house when we take the pictures. lexie and willow are photographed mostly together, but sometimes on their own. brandi only has one session and i lost it because circuit city decided to wipe out my computer without informing me first. some pictures come out really, really good and all i use is a sanyo xacti. it has all sorts of different modes i can shoot in like sports, snow, the beach, greenery, man/woman focus, and others. it's pretty neat. the man/woman focus does the effect of keeping the main subject clear while blurring out the background. i love it, but i don't use it very often. i usually keep my camera on the original setting, but i don't remember what it's called. anyways, here are the pictures i edited.

this picture was originally in color, but i desaturated everything except her eyes. yeah, that's right; her eyes are naturally that color. they're beautiful. i did color her lips though, just to give her that 'feminine' look. i hope it looks natural and not overdone.

this picture was already in black and white. i just colored his eyes.

this picture was already in black and white. i colored her eyes and lips.

this picture was in color. i desaturated everything around her eyes, but since her eyes looked like they were desaturated as well, i colored them over her natural color, which is a strikingly beautiful blue, and i colored her lips.