We had about an hour to get this done. With the lighting I had, even with a bounced flash, I couldn't get the shutter speed fast enough to avoid motion trails, even at 1600 ISO sensitivity. While I'm expecting to take a beating in the voting, my son will like seeing his kick on display.
- Imported RAW, adjusted exposure and white balance.
- Noise Ninja 2
- In PS:
- slight colour and contrast balance
- cloned out small blemish
- added diffuse highlight on side of head
- made contrasty BW version using Virtual Photographer plug-in
- blended BW and colour version 60/40
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Great composition. The model is well positioned with a good pose and the background adds context without being distracting. It would be a wonderful photo if his face was in focus and his motion was stopped.
Nice image; good background for it. However, and the title alluded to it, he was moving too fast for your shutter speed to stop him. And the object of this challenge was just that: to stop him. Faster shutter speed would have helped in this case. That's my opinion. Good luck with the challenge.
Sometimes its better not to submit if you know that you haven't met the challenge criteria! Would have been a great shot if it had have been fully stopped motion and you had done a levels adjustment.
Now, this is not sharp. The way to get it sharp is to put out the lights and just use the flash. However, the pose and jump are very good and the model really got into it, so I am bumping you higher on composition.
The lighting, contrast, color saturation and composition are all very weak. FInally, this isn't frozen motion. It's ALMOST frozen, but it's still not what the challenge described. Every aspect of the moving subject is blurred. However, the subject matter is strong. That's a good start. Most of the applicants haven't succeeded in that.
It's a nice pic, but the motion blur really does go against the challenge. I have no idea what camera you are using but if it's a case that you have no control of the shutter speed then you could try adding lots more light, or try presetting the camera focus and exposure to the bright light from the windows in the background and then take a few steps back before capturing the movement. Any underexposure could then be addressed afterwards.
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