I love messing about with desaturated photos, leaving in just a small amout of colour, something anyone can learn to do in five minutes by looking on places like youtube.
You don't need expensive photo editing programs though, I use GIMP a lot, my friends on facebook, some are geniuses with the likes of Photoshop and Adobe lightroom, and one good friend in paticular is showing me how to use lightroom, which is an amazing program.
Dropping all the colour in a photo, then highlighting a paticular item such as above with the bag, changes the view on the photo, black and white itself is amazing, i love taking black and white photographs, but sometimes a colour just stands out so much that you cannot remove it from the photo for fear of losing the entire image (in my own opinion), the other part of this photo for me, was just the way the world was passing her by whilst she was busy texting, or playing a game or something, just lost in the moment, which in life, is an important thing to do, a bit of escapism never hurts anyone
You don't need expensive photo editing programs though, I use GIMP a lot, my friends on facebook, some are geniuses with the likes of Photoshop and Adobe lightroom, and one good friend in paticular is showing me how to use lightroom, which is an amazing program.
Dropping all the colour in a photo, then highlighting a paticular item such as above with the bag, changes the view on the photo, black and white itself is amazing, i love taking black and white photographs, but sometimes a colour just stands out so much that you cannot remove it from the photo for fear of losing the entire image (in my own opinion), the other part of this photo for me, was just the way the world was passing her by whilst she was busy texting, or playing a game or something, just lost in the moment, which in life, is an important thing to do, a bit of escapism never hurts anyone