Dyed my hand green to enhance the contrast of the bracelet, used reflected light off some styrofoam I had around the house (after chasing my kids around making "Hulk" noises), and set the camera on timer.
Post processing was desating everything but yellow, levels, curves, USM, sharpen, resize, and a little Neat Image to sharpen the last stage. I also had to switch into the CMYK mode and play with curves a bit to get the green residues on my arm to blend in.
I can honestly say this is one of the few times I have felt constrained by the basic editing rules. With a few selective tweaks, this would have come out exactly as I envisioned it.
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Hey Bill, this was one of my favorites in this challenge. I'm going to put in in my favorites (my first I'm ashamed to say - *note to self add more pictures/artists to favorites). Great use of desaturation, beautiful composition, should have placed much higher IMHO.
Superb work! Good choice of subject, great desaturation work. I'd like to have seen it with the brake level desaturated too. My pick for the yellow ribbon (get it?)
very striking image. my eye wants to keep moving around. very strong composition and the lighting and selective saturation are wonderful. One of my favorites
Love this, the dark spots add good balance and dept to this photo, when I look at this first thought that comes to mind is strength, and isn't that what livestrong is all about? ...I'm a Lance fan too, good job!
I used one of these too. I don't know exactly what I'm looking at here, but besides that, it's a good shot. Plus, you got the whole band in the frame, which I failed to do :o)
Very nice photo. The yellow just stands out. Handle bar with the brake is a nice touch! Lighting, texture are quite nice, too. I used the band in Hope challenge.
It took me a while (couple of seconds instead of first glance) to see how that gold thingie related to the hand. After I figured out that it is the brake lever on a racing cycle and that the hand is positioned in the lower part of the handle bars it made a lot more sense to me. When I didn't see it, the shot didn't work for me and I would have given it a 6, but now that I do I'll give it an 8.
It would help if there was a bit more light on the connection between the handle and the lever as well as the fingers. Outside the basic rules challenge you could perhaps dodge it a bit..
love this! i keep meaning to get one of those bracelets but, alas, my old brain keeps forgetting. flecks of yellow in the hands but not much you can do about that within basic editing. good job!
great idea to bring out the yellow even more. I wish I'd have thought of this -- not sure what he's holding and not sure he even has to be holding anything for this shot to work -- good job!
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