It's a very neat picture with a sharp focus, I like how the water looks. There are too many faded colors and allot of unknown itmes for the desaturation effect to be recognized. It looks like a normal picture with all the colors desaturated.
Interesting shot, nicely masked and finely balanced colours. I think the image would look even better with the reflection of the kids turned to grayscale.
one of the best shots. if there were one small thing i would work on, it would be the green shoe strings. they are the boldest and brightest part of the shot and compete with the boy's face for attention. toning them down would be a good idea i think.
That's a beautiful capture but it doesn;t seem that the selective desaturation was carried out well. The kids look really pale. The way to do that is to create 2 layers, desaturate the top later then erase the parts you want in colour from the top layer so that the colour of the kids in the background layer show up. Voila you've got a selectively desaturated image.
Cute! I think I would have liked this more either completely in color, or with the kids selectively in full-color with only the background desaturated. That's a lot of work, I know, but as it is now the kids look rather bland, which is a pity because the image is great.
Priceless. I don't know how else to say it. For my money, this is the perfect capture and my top pick of the challenge. Unfortunately, I can't help with a vote, but if I could, 10 all the way. Great job.