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SpotlightStudioComment by vawendy: I really like the idea, but not the reality.
First of all, I don't think the desaturated works with this shot. Usually when you desaturate, you just leave one thing in color. By leaving the hat and the bird, your eye keeps traveling back and forth and has no place to rest. Also, the fence, the person and the post are desaturated to b&w, but the tree and the left part of the fence end up kind of a sickly green that's quite distracting. I think it would have been more effective just partially desaturating the shot. Leaving the colors, just having them quite muted and then saturating the yellows.
There are so many elements: the post, the tree, the person, the finch, the fence, the lines of a spider web, that you eye wanders too much around the photo. A tighter crop removing a good portion of the post might help bring you eye back in.
The hand moving up to the bird is actually quite interesting, but it's very crowded by the hat and the string. Moving your model a little more to the right and having her reach a little more might isolate the hand and add some interest and crowd the picture a little less.
I hope this helps some... :D