Edited in Photoshop Elements 2

[tonic289]

 

[Big Mike]

I'm wondering why you feel it necessary to tell what editing program was used...and only tell us that. :scratch:
And wow...Elements 2 is pretty old by today's standards, isn't it? I think they are on version 8 or 9 now.

As for the editing....selective coloring is something that just about every photographer tries, but you may also find that it's something that most photographers come to hate when they see it. Probably because it's usually done poorly, for the wrong reasons.

I don't think your is a bad choice, but it doesn't look like it was done very well. It looks like you missed part of the weight, on the left edge.

 

[KmH]

Adobe just released Elements 10.

 

[tonic289]

Part 2 (second picture posted in this fourm edited in Photoshop Elements 8). Sorry, for the wrong way I put them.

 

[edddial]

What have you edited? Maybe you can post the original photo too.

 

[DiskoJoe]

when i think selective desaturation I think of the little girl in the pink dress in schindler's list. See there the color was extremely meaning full and was used to draw in your attention. This is not doing that for me.

 

[Gaerek]

when i think selective desaturation I think of the little girl in the pink dress in schindler's list. See there the color was extremely meaning full and was used to draw in your attention. This is not doing that for me.

Keep in mind why Spielberg decided to selective color (desaturate, whatever you want to call it) the girl in the movie. In all reality, it was so we would remember her later. When you see the colored coat on the cart being hauled away later, you remember the little girl, so full of life, just minutes earlier.

If you're going to use SC, think about what it does to the image. Coloring (in a BW backdrop) will draw your attention. You will ignore almost everything else in the frame in the immediate. So to do it well, you need to have a reason to want your viewer to ignore most of your photo and focus only on what's colored. My critique here, then, will be some questions. These are mostly rhetorical as I'd like you to think about them.

1. What are you trying to convey by drawing my attention to a chunk of lead hanging from a fishing hook?
2. If your viewer weren't a fisherman (and I personally happen to be one), would they be able to figure out what's in the image? (It is fairly abstract, even if I do know what I'm looking at)
3. Why put the weight hanging from the hook, as this isn't how one would normally set up fishing gear? Is it for compositions sake? Would there be a way to set up the shot that would use a more realistic setup? (I'm not saying it's wrong, so don't misunderstand, but as a fisherman, I wonder why a weight is hanging from the hook)

This is just a start. think about things like this while you're shooting