This one was a real challenge to choose my entry. I started off shooting with gels and only happened to shoot a few without it. It was a real toss up for me during the selection process. I selected this one because the model was wearing the gloves in this shot.
Post processing:
1. Curves to darken the background and lighten the highlights. Only a little bit.
2. Selective Color to remove some of the cyan from the gloves.
That's it! I actually wasn't going to do anything at all to the image I just liked it the way it was.
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This is a beautiful shot in all ways. The lighting is perfect and helps to portray a menacing figure. It is well cropped. The only negative I can see is that no "action" is being displayed, but on such a great photo I can not hold that against you. Deserving of a high score. 10
Nice photo. the challenge description said to show the action of sport, this is a great portrait and would have scored it much higher in a portrait challenge.
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