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I like the concept, the selective desat, the capture of action
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nice use of selective saturation.
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This is really nice, Stacy (no vote)
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Cool motion blur and selective desat, it all works together really well here.
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Really good shot, and a very effective use of selective colouring.
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One of my favorites, love the hot horse shoe and motion of the hands.
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I really like this shot, great idea! With a little faster shutter speed so the hammer would have some definition, but still be blurry, this would have been a 9 or 10.
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Nice choice to go with selective de-saturation here.
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Great glowing horse shoe and hammer in motion.
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Great desat. Really lovely shot, the movement is fab
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Great use of selective saturation.
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Voted earlier coming back to leave comments. I really like how you bring the focus on the work and the action of creating the horseshoe to the spotlight. All else is presented in very dynamic B&W tones so that the main subject/ centered object of the photo can really pop off the page with those red-orange tones. The introduction of that specific color shows us the heat needed to shape it. Red hot, don't touch! I also like that the one hand hammering the horseshoe on the anvil is caught with motion. That adds to the sense of watching it in the here and now rather than it static with no motion. Great details here too.
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Well captured and presented.
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WOW .. stunning shot .. love the desat so perfect and apt .. love the movement .. :)
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Great image. Love the color contrast.
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Love the desat and the hint of movement ... well done
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Really cool! Great choice in processing!
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Love the feel of motion the moving hammer hand gives in relation to the sharpness of the red hot shoe. Nice composistion.
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A great image. I love the sel desat of the red hot shoe. The anvil in focus with the hammer in motion blur is just great! Bumping this to a 10.
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Great desat! I love the glow of the iron and the man working with it!
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Awesome use of desat. Love the motion in this shot.
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Sorry but selective coloring never works for me unless there is a great motive. This is a potentially good, natural shot made strange by the colored part against the grey tones. Sepia monochrome could have been a 6 or 7 but this is a 5 for being visually contradictory.
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excellent use of selective coloring. really give the viewer a "feel" for the image.
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Very nice image. It's good to see a few "great" images. This is a perfect reflection of your abilities as a photographer.
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Good use of selective desaturation, good clarity on the horseshoe.
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nice environmental potrait. Lovely tones , excellent composition. 7
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I really like this one especially selective colours
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Great action capture. Typically, I am not a fan of selective desat, though I can see why you used it here.
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First selective desaturation I ever saw that I really liked. But it's not really the selective desat that makes it; it's the selective focus. 8.
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good conversion to black and white, nice selective desaturation
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Nice image with perfect processing. The farriers hands speak volumes.
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Simple, yet powerful. I like it a lot.
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Powerful image. Desat really works here. Great textures.
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Excellent use of selective desat. A fave for this one.
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Great processing, fantastic feeling of movement and industry.
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Very nice. Would have liked to see a little more detail in the blacksmith's hands. Probably a tough shot assuming a dark room though.
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Nice use of selective desat.
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Excellent black and white work. I love the hot glowing, luminosity of the horseshoe. 8
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great use of selective desaturation, I really like the movement in the hand as well
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Ahhh...a perfect real life photo and the motion blur adds so much more depth to this photo! Well done!.
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so did you change this to B&W and leave the "glow" of the horseshoe? would really like to learn how to do that...
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Great use of selective desaturation.
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I'm not typically a fan of select desaturation, but this is really cool.
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Excellent shot, great work with the desaturation and composition overall.
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Excellent study, good selective desat! 6
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Good pic. I like the action of the hand and the crop is great.
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Good use of selective color and motion blur..
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Very nice selective desat.
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I like the part desat and movement in this image -8
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A rare instance where I like the desat work - also like the motion in it.
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Good use of desat and motion blur.
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Nice DOF, good sense of motion, the selective desat works well here.
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I think the horse shoe looses its intensity by the selective saturation.
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Nice move with the selective de-sat. Love the hands!
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nice capture, and selective desat works well here. good composition
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That's a great shot which is enhanced by the desat, lovely focus and DOG and the blur of the hammer's action, though I think a slightly faster shutter speed would have helped define the hammer more.
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selective color worked well
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Oh wow, I love it. The glow is prefect.
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I love the selective desat, well done
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Awesome shot, good composition and use of color and sharpness for focus.
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wish the hammer was not so blurred otherwise beauty 8
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Different. Good focus on the horse shoe and I like it desaturated.
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Good action shot and good use of selective desaturation.
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And that's what we call "effective selective desaturation".
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Motions blur and selective desat really works here.
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