2009 in photos

Wow, so much for this whole last post thing. I could not help but post a few of my favorite pictures from 2009. Below are a few from my Facebook (basically the events I have been to and the photos I was tagged in). I have been lucky to not have those “oops, I should of not been on camera type” photos. So here I go;

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Me being creative

A few days ago I started to play with some images and wanted to see what kind of interesting effects I could apply to them. I took my own picture and black and whited it and left only the beach towel and shirt in full colour (however I did play with the contrast a bit). See below;

Then I decided to try with a friends image. In my opinion his turned out the best by far. I did more or less the same as I did with my own, but then decided to blur the background to add focus on the main person in the picture – him. See below;

Then lastly, someone saw what I was doing and asked me to make them one, so I did. But I took the person and made them black and white and kept the coloring for the background (played with the contrast again and also sharpened the image). See below;

So what do you think? Which one do you think looks the best. Room for improvement? Tell me.

Noel Harrison