Thursday, May 18, 2023

[Dave]

Hi Rich, and thanks for commenting on my photo. You are right about the rose at the left being a bit distracting but you should have seen it before processing - the yellow was as saturated and vivid as the yellow flowers to the right. I knew I needed  to do something, and I saw three options: 1) cropping that distracting flower away, but I didn't like the resulting composition (although a close square crop wasn't too bad); cloning out the offending rose certainly would have worked; 3) I chose to desaturate that rose quite a bit (easier than cloning) to see if that was enough - obviously it wasn't.

Nice street photo. I would not have guessed Boston because I thought your photo had a European feel to it.