Selective Desaturation and Gaussian Blur on Jumping Bikes

[BT*ist]

Rather than put this into image reviews and critiques, thought I'd post here.

I shot these bikes at Eastern Creek during the A1GP, but was using a pretty long zoom and while the bikes were more or less in focus, I felt there was no separation of subject and background.


I selected the bikes and put them into a different layer, and Gaussian-blurred the rest... but wasn't sure whether it was enough?


Decided to crop the picture, and selectively desaturate as well.


Not sure whether it was worth the effort, but anyway C&C welcome!

[surenj]

quite like the effect but too distracting background. Tight crops would be interesting...