My daughter was helping shovel snow and the sight of her wielding that large shovel was too much to pass up. Wish I had time to change lenses (a 135 mm was on the camera) because I would like to have captured more of the background in order to emphasize her small stature with that large shovel and huge amount of snow.
I rotated and cropped, added a few adjustment layers (channel mixer, curves, levels,hue/sat), USM, added the border and dodged out a few shadows in the snow.
I decided to add the selective desat. later, I hope I made the right choice.
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The angle really helps with the off-balance feeling, and I think the wide white border was a great choice. Without both those elements, this wouldn't have been quite a good. Nice work.
I really love the treatment of this photo. It's very clear and clean looking and such a great composition. I'd love to know your workflow for this one! :-) 9
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