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05/29/2007 06:12:02 PM |
Positives:
Overall the lighting is not bad and the BW is OK.
Technicals:
The toughest thing about selective desaturation is getting the color right and the boundaries between color and black and white right. That is not easy.
You had trouble on both counts. Your greens stand out like a sore thumb even though they are good in and of themselves. They just don't fit the desat. You allowed boundary colors in places it should not have been allowed and that is a cardinal sin in selective desaturation. On the other hand, in some places the boundaries are very good.
The Challenge:
Yes, it meets the challenge. But many voters will ask themselves why you picked the desat the way you did. Their conclusion will be that you did it just for the challenge and will fault the image for it and give you a low score.
Selective desaturation, more than any other technique, must be applied to invoke a strong emotional response. Yours does not do that. Voters will ask themselves why you made that choice and when they can't figure that out will vote it low.
A question you always want to ask yourself is this, will my submission stand on its own long after the challenge topic is forgotten. If the answer is no then don't submit it.
I have to make this admission. I scored this image a 2 because I felt the selective desat was not well done, did not fit the composition at all good and was just a poor choice for composition and desat.
Suggestions:
I could make a few technical suggestions for improvement but my bottom line is that it just is not the right image to submit for selective desaturation or for composition. Sorry. |
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05/23/2007 01:27:38 PM |
| OK, this is another image that has virtually no visual interest. Sorry - 3 |
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05/23/2007 06:44:02 AM |
| Not very appealing subject. |
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05/22/2007 03:04:09 AM |
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