- first married kiss -
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Comment by GinaRothfels:
The selective desaturation doesn't work for me here. I'm not sure why you're trying to draw attention to the out-of-focus flowers.

- first married kiss -
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Comment by Jon_H:
I like the dof and the lighting but the flowers are distracting from what your title would otherwise draw your eye to.

- first married kiss -
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Comment by smardaz:
selective desat is hard to pull off well, and the flowers being blurry were not a good choice to be the only thing in color

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Comment by Rick_H:
To me the coloration of the flowers makes the image all about them and draws attetnion away from your true subject.

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Comment by Ja-9:
for me...I would have scored this much higher had the flowers been razor sharp in focus...since my eye is drawn to them first

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Comment by Cory:
Selective desat rarely works well... This is not (for me) an example that works well..

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Comment by ScooterMcNutty:
for this particular shot i dont like the selective desateration. if the flowers themselves were in focus it would help make it look better, but they're not so it looks a little funny. Its kind of distracting with a big bright yellow blur is there and the actual subject blends in with the background color wise.

with all of that said, i think that its a great moment captured, that just wasnt edited right.

- first married kiss -
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Comment by giantmike:
I like the idea in this photo, but I'm not liking the photo itself. I think it's because of the selective saturation on a burry part of the photo.

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Comment by Aarthek:
I'm in conflict here, the title is about the kiss, but the photos is about the flower. Leaving me conflicted on my vote.

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Comment by ThingFish:
A very lovely close-up but I hope you don't get DQ'd for having added the title to the border.
See the rules for advanced:
You may not:
"add graphics, clip art, computer-rendered images or parts of other photographs to your entry or its border during editing (except for combining photos as allowed by the multiple capture rules above)".