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Challenge: Selective Desaturation (Advanced Editing II)
Camera: Olympus C-700UZ
Location: Chemung County Landfill, Town of Chemung
Date: Jun 15, 2004
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/800
Galleries: Snapshot
Date Uploaded: Jun 20, 2004

 Took photos of my sewer crew working at a hazardous manhole at the landfill. They had their "street" shirts on, required for safety.
For the entry, I used the magnetic lasso of Photoshop Elements and selected the shirts, gloves and the number "42" on Chris's hat. Then inverted, and desaturated with the software. Selected and enhanced the sky. Selected and enhanced (lightened) all the faces... and there it is.

Statistics
Place: 151 out of 227
Avg (all users): 4.9645
Avg (commenters): 8.5000
Avg (participants): 4.9024
Avg (non-participants): 5.0676
Views since voting: 918
Votes: 197
Comments: 4
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Canon EOS-10D
 06/25/2004 02:23:54 AM
You know how much I like this picture.......... it might look fine because you know the people in the picture and what the original looked like. Probably the first time you've seen these guys actually working. But to a viewer it lacks a subject to focus on - one guy bending over a hole, one guy working on machinery, two guys stuffing a black something that is cropped out. If they had at least turned to face the camera and waved while you said, "Cheese!" it would have been kinda cool in a campy way. What might have worked on this picture - leave the background and desaturated the workers - would have made a statement about how people view manual laborers as not there...... and a better picture as well.
Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
 06/22/2004 03:36:51 PM
Another shot that you probably wouldn`t give much thought to if it was in full colour..but it takes on so much more interest in the way you have handled it.
Good work
 06/21/2004 01:45:25 PM
Reminds me of Kiwi's composite shots - I think it's the de-sat that's doing that, and the fact that all the guys seem to be the same build. Also have the slightly bizarre impression that the cable being fed in by one set of blokes is what the other two are looking for.
Google Pixel 2
 06/21/2004 12:21:11 AM
Yeah, you made it! I see you fixed the sky and hills, it looks great! This one gets an 8 from me!
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