Shot Sunday afternoon: I saw this nice section of colors in my rear view and thought this would make an interesting shot. I hope you like it as much as my family does.
Thanks in advance, for looking.
Disqualification Details
You may use a cloning tool or small healing brush for the sole purpose of removing sensor dust or hot pixels. No other spot-editing is allowed.
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Although your photo was DQ'd, you should be proud to have it in your portfolio. The fall leaves are beautiful and well framed in the rear view mirror. I can't really answer your question better than K10DGuy below. He's exactly right.
The key to selective desat in basic editing is making sure that the color(s) you want to keep are NOT in any other area of the photo.
This photo, unfortunately, would probably not be doable in basic in any way because of all the similar colors in both the desat area and the saturated area.