Dragged to the mall on a Saturday. Worse to a Christmas Tree Shoppe (huge yard sale of discounted quality junk) on a beautiful sunny day even! Knowing full well they don't let you take pictures in these places anymore, he still strapped the top-loader around his waist...just in case.
They wandered aimlessly through the anchor store, purchased slippers, and made for the escape into the throngs of eager shoppers. Had he not looked down, time would have passed him by.
The Shot: The anchor store projects a clock onto the floor at the entrance from the main throughway. I knew in an instant that this was time passing and quickly extracted my camera before a security guard could stop me. After a few shots, I stood up to get another angle and notice a small crowd of people had stopped to watch and allow me to finish up. One of the onlookers smiled as I glanced around and I broke through the confort zone that I have been so worried about.
"Would you mind walking right through the center of that clock when I say go?"
"Sure," she smiled, obviously pleased to be participating.
There was only one shot, a quick thank you and we were off to another two hours of shopping, but I no longer cared. Those few hours passed as if they were minutes. I had my shot.
[f/4.5][ISO:400][1/160] No Flash.
PP:
* RAW import: Huge Format, desaturated and Green Hue Maxed, R/B minimized.
* Noise Ninja 200 ISO.
* Cropped 10x15
* Healing Tool to remove branding on box.
* Clone Tool to remove branding on clock.
* Selective dodge on heavy shadows on slacks.
* Selective dodge on clock face.
* History Brush to return slacks/shoes to undodged quality.
* Selective burn to darken reflections/shadow in floor and outer perimeter of clock.
* Levels - Up Expose Blue Channel.
* Resize, USM, Border, Save for Web.
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This one is definitely different. NIce use of reflections. the focus is a bit soft, but appears intentional. This one is hard for me to catagorize. That generally means I need to bump up the score. 8.
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