Accidental Selectively Colored One

[Weekend Warrior]

And I think I kind of like it?(!?)

I cracked off this shot of hearts painted over some bricks near my house

Nikon D50 ~ 50mm 1.8
0.2sec @ f/11 ISO 200

And went over it with my few PP steps in Aperture (I've been using it for a couple weeks now)
Raw Sharpening
Bumped exposure
Slid the Black Point slider a couple tenths
Slight bump in Contrast
Very slender S Curve

And then came to the Individual Color Sliders;
Completely De-Saturated Red but slightly increased its Luminance which landed me at:


Hearts by delgiudice, on Flickr

I kind of like it. Thoughts? Keep it? Relegate it to the "Private Visibility" Flickr setting? Pretend I never did it? Keep working on it? Delete?

[Deleted]

Interesting start. I wonder what would happen if you played with the magenta and yellow or even just the yellow. I dunno, it just seems like those two yellow hearts want to pop more but that's just my taste. I like the base. You could take it to a few different directions if you wanted.

[lovelens]

I like that the white hearts pop out more. Good work!

[happyme]

Lol, who does such grafittis? :P BTW the shot is great and I love the post production.