cheating

Yes, I do think it's cheating, but sometimes enhancing a photo through your software just looks really nice and it's fun.

"Enhancing" is like ghetto HDR (yes we will make real HDR photos someday.) Right now, thanks to Iphoto we have this:

before:

 After:

This retouch was done with a program, Photomatix. We removed all pigments except blue hues.

 Before:

After:

Original:

Decreasing all pigments besides blue:

Noise reduction and adjusting contrast, saturation and reds in finishing touches:

Original:

Bippity Boppity Boo!

Original:

A click of the mouse and a flick of the wand...Voila!