jack in the beanstalk ... trying to show the five magic beans clutched in his hands. They are really jelly bellys, and they are magic!
Quick shot, surefire bomb. I really have no idea why I am entering this. The selective desat is rough, because the edges were a little blurry with this handheld macro shot. This was one of my test shots, and I'm just too lazy to reshoot with a tripod because I don't think the concept will score that well, even if I spent more time working out the technicals. So I decided to go with and accentuate the rough edges to make the beans look more magical, and see how it does.
Levels to darken everything up, then selective desat of the hand. Watercolor filter and Glowing edges filter to give the beans a magic glow. Resize, a little usm, border, s4w.
4.8, maybe lower.
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This has potential, even with the over-the-top postprocessing, but the arrangement of the beans isn't as interesting as it could be. I think you could do more with this concept.
I actually like this. And I have no clue why! :) Something about the colors and the shadow tones, I guess. Would be neat to see it without the filter effect, perhaps. But then again maybe that's part of what I like about it. :D Cool image!
Im not really keen on the processing. Makes it look too much like a painting. If you take that away I would have loved this. The natural texture of the skin and the beans. The selective desat works well.
Way too oversaturated colors on a selective saturated photo. To the point where you see the color changes and a line around the beans. Nice idea, though.
Nice colors, and I like the selective desat. Only nitpick is that there seems to be some kind of haloing (maybe from over-sharpening?) around the edges of the beans.
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