Off-Topic - advice, experiences and examples, for images that will be processed in PhotoLab

Here goes - it does what @Wolfgang suggested, but it reminds me of looking into a trick mirror…
I think I dis-like it, as it makes me feel uncomfortable looking at it. It doesn’t look real, it looks like something out of a bad dream.

First time I’ve gone into the HSL tool, while viewing the image in B&W on my screen, and adjusted the blue color on the bike frames.

I opened the lens pretty wide, as I only wanted the closest bike to be in focus. I got what I wanted, but now I have second thoughts.

Long before Wolfgang said what he did, I took several different photos from different angles, then took this image from slightly different viewpoints. I did get what I wanted (or so I thought at the time). Tonight, I kept cropping away parts of the image to keep it “focused” on the central part of the image.

It bothers me that there is something “disturbing” about this latest version. Maybe it works too well?

780_0733 | 2023-05-07.nef (30.3 MB)
780_0733 | 2023-05-07.nef.dop (18.9 KB)