Rainy Day
by Sonifo

Comment:
Strong contrast but image appears noisy and oversharpened (I'm sure it isn't rain). Even with all the sharpening, it seems the umbrella wasn't sharpened at all and seems soft. I would've done quite the opposite softening the background and sharpening the umbrella to further drive the point home. Even though the umbrella is in color, i'm drawn to the busy background and sharpness of everything else except the color of the umbrella.

Atrium #2
by Rasai

Comment:
Gray area at top a bit excessive. Also desaturation doesn't follow the line of the ceiling on the left side, seems a rather arbitrary cut off point. I'm sure a beautiful picture could've been produced here, just not photogenic at this angle or method of post processing.

Little Red Bridge
by timj351

Comment:
Beautiful garden, not sure if I find the bridge a strong subject of composition though.

Mr COOL
by kevrobertson

Comment:
Appears to be an everyday snapshot. Good practice in selective desat, but uninteresting subject and composition.

Just For DPC Winners (So I have To Try and Try and Try....)
by Mona

Comment:
Selection around base of glass a bit loose, leaving part of the table still saturated. Nice composition, and the colors give me the sudden craving for watermelon.

Shades of Gray
by garrywhite2

Comment:
I think too much of the background in focus and the butterfly not sharp enough. Also could've benefitted from a larger aperture, grass too distracting to bring my attention to the color of the butterfly.

Berlinetta
by redmoon

Comment:
Beautiful machine and excellent photo! Is she yours? I think desaturating the white of the reverse light made the tailights appear dull. Perhaps you could've left the yellow and white of the reverse and blinkers?

A Selective Bench
by ScantyNebula

Comment:
Appears if you selectively desaturated colors to achieve this effect. It would've been a pain to manually select the bits of dirt between the grass behind the bench. Nice idea, but I think with so much brown from the dirt on the right half, it draws attention away from the bench.

Blue Birds
by Prime_Time

Comment:
Appears as if selective colors were desatured to supply this effect as there are still hints of color in the background (bluish tints) and the birds also look dull and have spots of gray. I'm sure the birds were more appealing in full color. Nice contrast but the perch near the bird's tails seem a bit blown out.

Pleasantville
by DefyTime

Comment:
Nice and sharp image. Technically, it's a good photo but composition leaves a little to be desired. I find it rather uninteresting.