This photo is my first try at selective desaturation. I first cropped the photo, then adjusted brightness and contrast. I then adjusted hue and saturation. I finally resized and unsharp masked it.
This was taken at the historic Majestic hotel in Hot Springs AR.
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This has the makings...almost.
Your selective de-sat is right on.
The extra saturation on the yellow, unfortunately, shows up badly on her feet.
A little more room to the left. A more level horizon. Just a bit more (or less) of the plant at the top....
So darn close!
I really like this compositionally, but I'm not so sure about the selective desat. Ido really like the "ghosts" from the long exposure, they really give the feeling of time passing. Nice work.
I liked your concept of going for a sort of a plain monochromatic look, but there are two misty, whitish and out of focus places in the background that are very distracting and pull the photo down.
looks like you tried some selective desaturation, which failed. The yellow spots left all over the subject are very distracting. Not really sure what you were going for by desaturationg everything but green & yellow. Sorry.
I used this technique for my entry as well. My only problem here is it dosen't seem to hightlight anything in particular. If anything here, it sort of confuses the scean. This may have been what you were going for, but I don't think it was. Over all exposure is good, tho I'm not quites sure what the blurred motion in the back is supposed to add. I hope you don't take this as overly criticle, I only make the suggestions in order to help for next time.
like the color and the concept there are a few strange blurs i cant figure out. and a few too yellow spots on the girls feet and hands it might have been better with her in all b&w.
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