Bridal Nerves
by CKYidiot

Comment by Tez:
nice pic but it's a shame the b/w looks so flat. The skin is pretty much the same shade of grey which makes her look flat and 2d. some curves would have helped this, or even some dodge/burn to add some depth.

Bridal Nerves
by CKYidiot

Comment by jaysonmc:
Sorry, I gave a low score on this one. I have a bias toward desat pictures. There are a couple of other others things too. I think it might have looked really well in color, as those flowers really pop.

Bridal Nerves
by CKYidiot

Comment by DCPhoto:
I really just don't like this.. sorry - I do a lot of weddings and well this just doesn't do it for me.. maybe in full color would be better or if you croped out everything but her face down to her hands. Just a thought. :-)

Bridal Nerves
by CKYidiot

Comment by jdannels:
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Bridal Nerves
by CKYidiot

Comment by quiche:
The bride's face is too flat looking. Needs better lighting to make her face compete successfully with the flowers. Alternatively, given the intensity of the flowers, might've been better to crop just above the top of her dress, omitting her head & shoulders so that the flowers could tell the story.

Bridal Nerves
by CKYidiot

Comment by Melethia:
Nice work on the desat - very cleanly done. She looks quite calm aand peaceful! I suspect she likes this quite a bit. You may also want to try it still desat like you have it here, but desaturate the bouquet a bit, like maybe 50%, and see if it softens the difference some. And if that doesn't make sense, just ignore me (or PM me and I'll try to explain further!)

Bridal Nerves
by CKYidiot

Comment by zohar-halfon:
i love the beautiful bald colors of the flowers on the B&W but i would have liked to have an "eye contact".

Bridal Nerves
by CKYidiot

Comment by hotpasta:
the selective desat looks a bit ghastly on this image...sorry :-(

Bridal Nerves
by CKYidiot

Comment by NikonJeb:
Interesting tones. I'm not sure if I like the really flat desaturation with the extreme saturation of the bouquet. I'll have to look at this again later.....for now-6

Purity of Youth
by CKYidiot

Comment by aliqui:
1)Your original isn't balanced. By putting the fountain as the center focal point, the photo seems less cluttered. To me making the fountain the focal point, actually focuses the viewer on the children more. Cropping also chopped out the tree that was coming in from the left. I did crop out a small bit of empty blue sky, but I left most of it, because it shows the height of the fountain. As a bonus with the tighter crop, I noticed the bicyclist behind the fountain. Ooo, depth!

2) Your original really was over sharpened. I tried correcting this by blurring the youngest one's face a tad and dodging/burning it at the pixel level. (Meaning, I zoomed WAY in, heh) The best way to fix this is to not over sharpen. It's easy to get carried away trying to sharpen water drops from fountains, but don't forget to look at what it's doing to the image as a whole. You lost nearly all detail in the faces of the children, and they were your subject, not the fountain. I also ran the image through Neat Image in attempts to soften it.

3) I cloned out the wire that other people were talking about. It really was distracting, heh.

4) I Dodged and Burned the bricks a little.

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