New Assignments and Color Issues

So, this month I'm supposed to be working on slow shutter speed pictures. I don't know where my tripod is, so I am kind of lame about it, but I did my best. I did some fireworks and sparklers (just the kind we did ourselves) and I'm glad I have time to read up some more, find my tripod, and try again on the 24th. But here are some I got that I will figure out how to fix up and have fun with:

So, we'll see what comes out of those.

Now, here are some I took with my babydoll eating an apple. I really wanted a big contrast between the blue of her eyes and the red apple, so I enhanced those colors. On photoshop they look great, and even in a slide show on Flickr, but just looking at them in my photostream, they look really processed and dark. I'm going to try them here to see how it goes here:

This first one is unprocessed, so you can see the regular colors.

These next three are processed--brighter eyes and apple.

Well, I think they look fine here, I don't know why they are being funny on Flickr. Any suggestions on color enhancing? Anything else I should do on these photos?