This photo was taken at the serra da arrabida in Portugal. Just had a great time playing with this photo. IT was really easy to get this. Don't know how well it will go but i just love this photo. Have lots of outtakes. I had to take lots of photos and choose one at the end.
Took with selftimer and Burst 3.
Photoshop
>Crop
>auto levels
>auto contrast
>auto color
>hue/saturation
>neat image
>this was all done on the whole imagem
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I liked this image a lot when I saw it in the challenge, and I like it still. It was one of the more creative interpretations posted, and it's technically well done. A small touch that particularly appeals is the blurring of the right foot, which adds a note of verisimilitude. Ditto the cocked knee's relationship to the bright horizon and the wonderful effect of the top part of the scarf "fluttering".
Two things strike me as slightly "off"; one you can deal with, the other you can't.
What you can't deal with is the position of the hands (and to a lesser extent, the arms): if this were "really" someone holding on to a pole for dear life, both arms would be fully extended and both hands would be wrapped around the pole. In the image, it's clear that the upper arm is being used as a "lever" to hold the pose. Maybe "clear" is too strong a word; perhaps most people would not notice this. In any case it's a minor thing.
What you CAN deal with is the cropping. Since the essence of a gale is horizontal movement, I think the extreme verticality of this image is working against the theme a little bit. I'd try cropping top and bottom significantly, while maintaining the same relative position of the figure. This will remove soem of the extreme verticality and let us savor the horizontal flow a bit more. I've taken the liberty of doing such a crop here:
I think this is a really fine & creative image in its own right, and even more so when measured against the challenge. Very good work, friend.
Ok for you people who can't figure it out. I just had to run against the post and hang there for 1 or 2 seg. Then the camera would be on self timer and burst 3. after like 100 shots choose the one that i thought was best.
Thanks everyone for your comments.
I just had lots of fun with this one. It was all taken by myself. :)
Great idea and well done!
The only letdown is the positioning of his left hand which kind of ruins the illusion that he's hanging for dear life =)
Would have also preferred you cropped the upper third portion.
returning for comments:
Very convincing. I would have gone back and with strings arched the branches. maybe too far? regardless, this image is cool and a worthy entrant. Bumping up another notch.
rotflmao. I love this. I love the cropping especially. I love the alignment of the right knee witht he bright band of the far horizon. I love tyhe slight blur of the right foot. The position of the hands is the only obvious giveaway that this person was not, in fact, being blown horizontal by gale winds :-)
Clever. I'd like to read about how you shot this. I had considered something like this myself but I couldn't figure out how to make it convincing. The scarves add a lot as do the clouds.
Ah, quite an effective shot. This guy's talented. Must have taken some effort to get this to look right. Well done! I think the backdrop is quite dramatic and adds much interest to this shot. Wonderful.
This should be a ribbon winner, given the competition. I don't care too much for non-standard aspect ratios, especially when it doesn't seem to do much for the image. I would have cropped the lower part, probably all 2/3rds of the gravel below the bottom grass line. That would have also put the object more towards the lower 3rd, removing it from the almost vertical center of the image. 9.
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