I stumbled upon this little guy while looking for cardinals to shoot for the challenge. I found the cardinals, but this photo turned out better. Handheld with the Canon 70-200 f/4L lens at 200mm. Cropped, USM, and desaturated everything, then painted the color back in with the history brush. If I had a little more time, I would have cloned out the fuzzy background clover, but this will have to do. ;-)
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Excellent, glad you didn't desaturate the flower, just the background is enought to make the subjects jump out at you. I would have desaturated the blurred flower in the background however.
You could have pulled a 10 here but you blew it by just desaturating the unfocused (and inconsiquencial) background. You should have greyscalled the flower and that bee would have stood out like a lighthouse.
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