I have real mixed feelings on this one. First thought is that I really dislike selective desat. It just isn't effective. Yet your choices of the color and where you've done it is really quite interesting. The color itself is intriguing.
Her face is so wonderful, I was thinking that you ruined a tremendous photo by your choice of the desat. But then I wonder whether or not I would have spent so long looking at it without having it drawn me in.
7 for the photo. +1 for making me think so hard about it. There's a good chance it would have been a 6 as is. 8 because you made me start thinking about changes. I think by getting rid of the cup and the yellow thing to the left of the cup and the yellow at the top of the mirror, that it would have been 9 worthy. Just enough subtle bits to add intrigue.
I'm generally not a fan of photos that have been desaturated but for one color. Here is an exception, since it is so charming and deftly handled. A busy composition that works well because of, mostly, the disposition of the people and the quirky variety of details. Well done.
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