Originally posted by WPRESTO BruceBanner: It took my mind a moment to realize that's what you had done to the image. And stay calm - do not get upset that I didn't admire your PP work immediately. The single color treatment is very effective.
Haha, no offense taken, messing around with colours is going into the 'arty' realm and starts to become very subjective as to whether it appeals to one persons taste or another. My dad can't even stand black & white pics!
With this pic, the rose/flower was red, and no matter what tinkering I did I could not get the detail and color contrast that this version has. All I did (iirc) is turn all saturation off in the pic except red, and just mess around with the slider of hue and luminance of red, and voila! When i stumbled upon it, I immediately enjoyed the extra clarity, contrast and detail it brought about, and the tad of surrealism I thought added something, so I left it.
Having said that, this picture below I took on the same day, it's now seen 4000+ views and 130+ favs on flickr, it somehow managed to wander into 'Explore';