Baby Blue October 5, 2009

I accidentally stumbled across this picture on flickr and I just thought it was beautiful. There is just something magical about a child’s eyes. The pure innocence and naivety of a child’s eyes just melts my heart. I really liked how the photographer desaturated the picture, and then reintroduced the blue colour only in the iris of the child’s eyes. I think it further highlights and brings out the emotion in the eyes. I was inspired by this picture to play with colour to accentuate certain features of a photograph. I digitally enhanced one of my photos (taken by me) and played around with different styles. I used both Photoshop and Pinik to increase the saturation of the picture, then selecting areas in which would be black and white to create a start contrast between a vibrant, intense colour and the grayscale background. I felt that the blue colour of the child’s eyes and the deep red of his croc shoes really stand out, thus I wanted to further enhance these colours while muting out the background.

 

 

 (From left to right)The first one is the original picture. I took it on my birthday whilst at botanical gardens. It is one of my favourite photos that I have ever taken, the child’s expression is just CLASSIC(: [why are you taking my photo!] Plus his blue eyes are really gorgeous, although the photo kind of washed it out. For the first photo, I wanted to bring out his blue eyes so I layer s black and white copy of the picture on top of the original, using Photoshop. I then erased the iris area of black and white photo to allow his blue eyes to shine through. As for the second photo I did similar steps just that this time I also picked out the intense red colour of his croc shoes. However I feel that that might have overpowered the colour of the eyes, bringing the attention to the shoes instead of the eyes.  The last photo I edited using Pinik, a free online software, and rendered it the cross-processing effect, which gives it is bluish green tint. In addition, I used the boost function to enhance the colour of his eyes and his shoes.  

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