And to think I almost just deleted these...

I was SO disgusted with myself earlier, I almost just formatted my memory card and got rid of these pics! I had taken some "bathtime" pics of my dd yesterday and set a custom white balance for the icky bathroom lighting (tungsten lights). Today, my almost 11 year old Austin, (who never, EVER wants his pic taken!) actually asked me if I wanted to practice on him! Who am I to refuse? I hurriedly set up my backdrop by the best natural light source in the house (the big glass door in the kitchen), metered, and snapped away. Devin wanted in on the action (jealousy??) so I took a few of him too. Then I went to look at the pics on my camera's lcd screen- AND THEY WERE ALL BLUE!!! I forgot to reset my white balance! I was so mad I almost deleted them, but I stopped myself. I played and played in photoshop but I couldn't get their skin to look right, so I just started running my dark chocolate b&w action on them all- and I LOVED how it looked! It totally saved my otherwise useless pics! I even added MORE grain to them since they are pics of my boys and I thought they could handle the grainy-ness.













And, just so you can SEE how terribly BAD they were, here is one before I converted it (GULP)!



You can bet I will be checking and double checking my white balance from now on! LOL! Ah well... we live and we learn, huh? It's just funny because I am such an obsessive person by nature, I just can't BELIEVE I didn't check it!