voyagernavy2004

Well, I'm getting more and more practice. I've been back from sea for about 2 1/2 weeks now, and a guy on my boat wanted me to take his and his girl's engagement photos, having liked some of my previous works I showed him. He also invited me to his wedding to shoot. They have hired a photographer, but spoke to him and he is cool with me going to shoot and totally supports someone trying to build their portfolio, but just asks that I don't take pictures of his set poses. And believe me, I'm totally cool with that.

I digress. So, here are the first 5 of the engagement photos.

plummy

second one is cute. third one looks like someone's takin a poo.

voyagernavy2004

Here are the next 5 from this photo shoot.

Killermondodude

Black and color can be a bitch
(the green in your first one is a distraction)

What i do to aid is
1 Blow it up 130-150% then you can be more careful
2 magic wand will isolate the areas you want to process
3 use History erase brush to expose the color from your converted black and white
*Note HEB will not work until you flatten or merge the layer
4 change the brush size with right click (big for isolated areas small for fine details)

On your second pic i love the hands and id suggest color all the leaves in the background or none

Very well done on the composition

voyagernavy2004

Thanks for the input. Ya, I don't know how to do that yet with an editor. I still have yet to go buy a Photoshop book to do it with, but I did it on accident to begin with and then chose to continue with it.

But thanks again for the input!

plummy

layers are your friend

voyagernavy2004

And here are the last of the edited ones.