blurry backgrounds and bright eyes.

[Edit: As requested, I added the before shots to the afters so that you can see the magic I worked. You're welcome Madre.]

So, there's this blogger named MckMama that you may have heard of. Or you might not have, but it doesn't really matter, does it? Anyhow, I stalk ahem, read her blog. She just did a really neat post on how to make people's eyes in your photographs pop. Not out of their heads, silly. Be brighter and so on. And so, I took a picture of Max and worked some magic using that program called Photoshop Elements. And we got this:

Before:

After:

I thought it turned out pretty good, if I say so myself. I've liked this picture that I took of Max (using Madre's camera at the park) for awhile now, and his eyes were already bright blue...but this just made them...well, POP.

I also worked some magic on this picture using the thing we call PSE. A little cropping, selecting, blurring, adjusting saturation and levels later...we have this.

Before:

After:

I like it. I know...only half of my face is showing. But, I like it...it's about as artistic as I'll ever get. If it wasn't taken over a year ago, I would make it my profile picture on facebook. But. It's over a year old (from the trip to ATL last summer) and I like to think that I look older and more mature. I apparently don't (since several people have mistaken me to be fifteen or sixteen in the last few weeks...I'm nineteen people!). But, that's how life is. I guess if I look 3-4 years younger than I am now...I'll look like I'm 29 when I'm 50? That's how it works, right?