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Challenge: Selective Desaturation (Advanced Editing II)
Collection: What Was I Thinking?
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Location: Easton, CT
Date: Jun 20, 2004
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1600
Galleries: Nature, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jun 20, 2004

 I stumbled upon this little guy while looking for cardinals to shoot for the challenge. I found the cardinals, but this photo turned out better. Handheld with the Canon 70-200 f/4L lens at 200mm. Cropped, USM, and desaturated everything, then painted the color back in with the history brush. If I had a little more time, I would have cloned out the fuzzy background clover, but this will have to do. ;-)

Statistics
Place: 91 out of 227
Avg (all users): 5.3622
Avg (commenters): 5.7500
Avg (participants): 5.2698
Avg (non-participants): 5.5286
Views since voting: 1496
Votes: 196
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/24/2004 05:25:31 PM
Nicely done. Excellent clarity and composition.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/23/2004 09:27:47 AM
good picture but perhaps not the best choice for this challenge
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/22/2004 11:01:03 PM
Excellent, glad you didn't desaturate the flower, just the background is enought to make the subjects jump out at you. I would have desaturated the blurred flower in the background however.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/22/2004 01:39:22 PM
Can't really tell if ya desat'ed the background or not. Nice macro shot.
TC
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/22/2004 07:50:43 AM
this is awesome!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/21/2004 02:39:55 PM
This would have had more impact with deep depth of field.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/21/2004 12:21:56 PM
If the background is what is desaturated you couldn't tell. The DOF just renders it as one big blur. sorry.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 06/21/2004 03:36:24 AM
You could have pulled a 10 here but you blew it by just desaturating the unfocused (and inconsiquencial) background. You should have greyscalled the flower and that bee would have stood out like a lighthouse.
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 06/21/2004 01:30:33 AM
very nice, but too much color. The image is breatiful.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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