The Return Of The High King Of Munster

Paul Oconnel just as he made his long awaited heinekin cup return after a long injury lay off.Who would have taught that minutes later he would be trundling back to the side after being red carded although in his defence a yellow card would have sufficed in my opinion. I normally dont like selective colour but I have a use for this image I have another version processed where I did a slight desaturation and gaussian blur on the crowds in the backround making paul pop in the image but its still powerfull enough without a second glance what the focal point is. I am trying to put together a collection of images around thomond park and munster. I isolated Paul from the backround using vertus fluid mask which is superb at making a realistic smooth removal..

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