No crop. Selective color and curves. Then I turned the background green by blending a layer of green and painstakingly masking out the bench. Resized. I put a little bit of sepia photo filter on it. Using the same mask, I sharpened only the bench.
I just like the textures.
Statistics
Place: 49 out of 126 Avg (all users): 5.5906 Avg (commenters): 6.0000 Avg (participants): 5.3091 Avg (non-participants): 5.7553 Views since voting: 920 Views during voting: 275 Votes: 149 Comments: 11 Favorites: 0
I quite like this. The shapes and composition works really well. Nice to see a different take on the ole bench. Being much of a macro closeup shooter, this one takes after my own heart.
Including bird poo, I see. I like this, though. It's very simple but reminds me of so many well-used and well-worn benches in leafy city parks, and the stories they could tell.