Fun with black & white...

My new obsession... playing with black & white. I love it... Don't get me wrong, I LOVE color, but lately, all I've wanted to do is convert color to black & white. Here are a few photos that I messed with of myself. It was fun. The only problem I ran into, however, was that I had my 50mm lens on, so I couldn't zoom it out and my arm could hold the camera away only so far... :) So, they are some pretty close, close ups... 

Some more fun photos that are recent...

Just some faces that I love...

I have been lazy...

SO lazy with posting to my blogs... but here are some photos that you might enjoy. I do. Here are some nature pics... I've had fun editing them with Adobe Lightroom. I LOVE Lightroom!!

Now here are some fun portrait pictures... 

Flowers & a kitten...

Before & After

 I've always enjoyed looking at before editing & after editing shots... so here are a few that I did. I don't know that you can even tell the difference really... since I don't really know what I'm doing when it comes to editing, I tend to edit "light". ("light" as in "hardly at all".) So the first picture, I just lightened it up a bit.

This one I desaturated the grass and trees, mostly. I think it looks neat that way... however, I don't really mind the first version of the photo. 

This picture actually looks the most dramatically different between the before & after photos (which I am rather proud of) but for some reason blogger won't let me post the one picture. Oh well. I still like the way it turned out. 

Some new pictures...

I did some editing on Photoshop last night... I don't know anything about Photoshop, I just have the trial version for the next 17 days. I wish that I knew more how to work it, and what I was doing, but I think that I made this picture look better (below) :

  

The one above is pre-edited, and the one below is edited. I didn't do much to it, because I liked the way it looked already, but I think the coloring is much more realistic. Or at least, more how I remember him looking when I just looked at him, rather than what my camera recorded.

I just liked this picture below...