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I'm always happy to post photographic ideas up here because I am confident that those with more experience and training and artistic vision will be quick to point out when I am off-base. Such as now. If you're asking me to defend the sketch idea that I threw up, I cannot, Beyond what I've already said. It simply makes me happy. Is it in artistically poor choice? Apparently. The OP certainly is free to disregard it. Since I put it up, the OP has received sage counsel to disregard it, which is certainly fair. I recognize that selective colorization is cliché. I recognize that it might tend to draw the eye away from the subject for some. I still liked it.Agree to disagree. I found the exposure-blown sky to be a real bummer, and switching to straight b/w just wasn't doing it for me. I liked the selective pumpkins and thought the kiddo was clearly not going to be ignored (he looks like a happy little handful!). You disagree- no worries. Your point makes a lot of sense, but I still like the pumpkins.Not the selective color - it pulls attention away from the child, implying the pumpkins are more important.
PS- hate that disagree button. Most of us take and even encourage C&C, but the big red X kinda yells "You stink" (which wasn't what you meant) rather than "I would have made a different choice there, friend" (which what you said in your well-reasoned post).
Selective color can be used to draw attention.
Why would the photographer want to draw attention to the pumpkins?
Selective color is rarely appropriate, attractive or useful.
Why not stop trying to beat this poor picture with edits to get something good out of it?
This picture has such real, disqualifying defects that no amount of PSing will make it a good representative of a photographers work.
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