One of my passions is baby photography.  When taking pictures of a baby there’s certain challenges that you run into that you wouldn’t with an adult. Babies don’t take directions and only cooperate by accident.  It falls on me to try and adapt accordingly and take a great picture.  In this particular image I decided to take away the color from the baby to show its peacefulness while it’s sleeping but keep the bright pink of the props to still show that anything a baby does is still very exciting.

  The reason I chose this assignment is because I found this technique very interesting and had never worked with it before.  I thought I could try it out on my newborn photography and see how it interests me.  Overall I find this effect aesthetically pleasing both commercially and as a fine art form.  I think from an advertising viewpoint this would be something that would attract parents of newborns to my business.  From an artistic viewpoint, this technique could be used in a lot of different ways to help convey dramatic emotions within a picture.

  To create this image I grabbed a stock image from one of my newborn photo shoots.  I then uploaded the image into photoshop and duplicated it.  I left the main layer in color and the duplicate I made black and white.  I lowered the opacity of the black and white image and used the erase tool to easily erase all areas I wanted to do in color.  After that I increased the opacity back to 100%.  All I had left to do was flatten my image and I was done.

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  One of my passions is baby photography.  When taking pictures of a baby there’s certain challenges that you run into that you wouldn’t with an adult. Babies don’t take directions and only cooperate by accident.  It falls on me to try and adapt accordingly and take a great picture.  In this particular image I decided to take away the color from the baby to show its peacefulness while it’s sleeping but keep the bright pink of the props to still show that anything a baby does is still very exciting.

  The reason I chose this assignment is because I found this technique very interesting and had never worked with it before.  I thought I could try it out on my newborn photography and see how it interests me.  Overall I find this effect aesthetically pleasing both commercially and as a fine art form.  I think from an advertising viewpoint this would be something that would attract parents of newborns to my business.  From an artistic viewpoint, this technique could be used in a lot of different ways to help convey dramatic emotions within a picture.

  To create this image I grabbed a stock image from one of my newborn photo shoots.  I then uploaded the image into photoshop and duplicated it.  I left the main layer in color and the duplicate I made black and white.  I lowered the opacity of the black and white image and used the erase tool to easily erase all areas I wanted to do in color.  After that I increased the opacity back to 100%.  All I had left to do was flatten my image and I was done.

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