When the sun came in the window my vase reflected this cool shadow that I wanted to get in a creative way. To get creative I used what I had the wall is the dark shade so I made one flower drop in there an desaturated everything close to the subject flower. I wanted to show in what concept the rose was using the shadow. I think it worked well, and the desaturation to. Usually I dont selective saturate the image, but to be extra creative and make something stand out I did it here. I hope you forgive me the selectiv saturation :)
I used Lightroom for the basic adjustments and masked it for the selective saturation in PS.
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Well well, I get assigned to your image again. To tell you the truth, I am not as fond of this one as the one of the woman. It´s not bad, but truthfully I would have voted a 5 and moved on to the next shot without commenting, I don´t find it bad but not good either.
First of all, this is just me and my problem but I really detest selective desaturation and that for starters is hurting the image in my opinion.
It does meet the challenge, no doubt. I do really like that vertical shadow of the wall, without it this shot would have been very boring so excellent work on that part. However, the flowers+vase and shadow are well something I have seen before and while you did it correctly, it´s not really all that interesting to me anymore and would have needed to have some twist too it to make it extraordinary, like some trick that the shadow showing someone reaching into the flower bouquet and picking one of the flowers away but no hand visible near the actual flowers. Sort of like the blue ribbon shot of the cat with the lion shadow, a trick like that would have been needed for this to really pop off the screen.
All in all a decent shot and who knows, had it been in color or just b/w I would probably have given it a 6 wich in my book means above average but still not really making my jaw drop to the floor.
cool use of selective desaturation. I feel the most intresting part of the shot isn't the shadow of the vase but the colored flower in the light and the b&w flower in the shadow. It has a very Ying-Yang feel to it.
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