A big thank you to my daughter for helping me out on this last minute project.I asked her to go to the top of a clearing and stand until I could zoom in on her and take the picture.
However, once I had zoomed in, I found her racing towards me, scared out her mind by the noises in the woods.
Adjustments to contrast and sharpness.. a little dodging and burning of the trees..some distracting marks cloned out and image softened using "Neat Image".
Image resized.
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oh ok the thing in the back realy dident look like anything untill i read that she was running and then i saw it, good job the picture has a verry creppy feeling to it!
I knew this was yours Gordon - was going to come back to it but had little time to vote or comment recently.
Great stuff (if a little too overprocessed for my taste). You have a wonderful appreciation of light and its effects, coupled with a sensitive approach to the processing. Your original has a touch more charm in my view since you left your challenge shot open to the presumption of extensive filter treatments. This does of course only matter if winning is the desired outcome!
I'm very surprised this didn't do beter. But I also have to admit that your other forest shot might have done slightly better. :P I just love the other one!!
This is amazing. And now that I look at it again closely I wish that I had given it a 10 instead of the 8 I gave it. It just goes to show you that you should really spend more time looking at a photo before voting, or else go back to them again.
Excellent work Gordon this is a fantastic image!
I`ll post a copy of the original sometime today for those who expressed an interest in comparing it.You may be surprised at how little was done to achieve the effect.
I really like this shot. Brings you into the picture. Draws you down to the person, then you think, crap! maybe I should run too. I love the soft effect, too
I like the overall feeling and composition of this image, but without the title, the figure could be just about anything: a sprite, Hansel running from the woods, a one-legged crow :-), etc. Just the same, its a nice image: mysterious, dark, foreboding, slightly out of focus so you worry about what is out there - and you run from it toward the light.
Really cool, creepy dark photo and a nice job softening the finished result. This ended up looking more like a painting than a photo, but a really nice painting. :-) Gret job!
It's only on my third look at this shot that I've worked out the relevance of having a one-legged person here :-) Sense of mystery quite well done - rare here - though I'm not completely sure it's not over-done. I think having the figure closer might have paid off more - let us see the fear, rather than having to imagine it and work out what's happening. But the setting is ideal - the threatening woods are such a strong part of the darkness of true fairy-tales, and that alone puts this in the top bracket.
I'm wondering how far this will go due to its heavy digital art feel. I'm more of a purist in that I enjoy photographs whcih depict things in a realistic manner. That being said, I think this is an attractive work. In the strictest sense, photography means painting with light, so in my mind this is definitely legitimate work, but too overprocessed for my personal tastes. That being said I'm giving it a relatively high rating,.. You've created controversy for me, and I like images that make me think.
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