Messing around with color

Color is an interesting thing It's definitely easy to go overboard, and other times you just need it to be the boldest thing in the picture. I'm still debating as to whether or not I like the edits I did on this picture:

In the case of this picture, I think the color is necessary, because otherwise it would be kind of a boring picture; the color helps make the sky seem HUGE. Before I edited this picture, it was just "meh"

This picture, I think, benefits even more from changing the colors.

For comparison, here it is unedited 

The color enhancement made any foreground detail go away (which is what I was going for, because some of those buildings are ugly in comparison to the sunset). The color adjustments made an already beautiful sunset simply amazing.

Yes, these are the same sky on different days. Kinda interesting to get almost identical shots of a morning and evening sky.

Some more fun before/ afters

Fun with black and white

Snowy footprints

snow walkers

Dead Deer

For comparison, here is a side-by-side with the original color version

5 begrudging self portraits

This first picture is one of my favorites. I will admit it is from high school, but it represents something that I had a lot of fun doing, and wish I was still more a part of. 

This is me after my troupe's first big belly dancing performance. I still had all my makeup and, and about half my costume. You can't see it in this picture, but where my hair is pulled back on the left, I've got a big hairclip covered in feathers that I made myself, and got a lot of compliments on. I had a LOT of makeup on, way more than I usually wear; eyeshadow, liquid eyeliner in a stripe down my cheek, lipstick, lip liner, blush. Something else you can't see in the picture is a peacock feather necklace that I got at a belly dancing convention a few months before.

About

"My full name is Wilhelmina Lusanna van Royen, but you can call me Willa if that’s easier. I’m a student at Pacific University, attempting to double major in integrated media and creative writing. Career aspirations? Make money, survive, be badass, etc. People make fun of me for being “hipster,” but it’s just because I’m from California, and everyone in Cali is a little bit hipster just because it’s California.

I love writing and would love to publish a book, or even some short stories. I read a lot, enough that I don’t really enjoy video games as much as most of my generation does. I love horseback riding as much as I love books, but it’s expensive and I don’t get to do it very often. When I’m not reading, or when I can’t read a book because I don’t have space to carry one around, I’ll read online stories on my phone. Thank goodness for that thing. I would be immeasurably bored without it."

From this site that I made recently. It has some examples of my photography and writing.