burn to remove the tiny details on the background, selective deaturation on body and blue tint, gaussian blur on the ball to make it totally smooth, blur on edges of the body, cloned out tiny spots on the ball, healing brush to smooth the color, filter/sharpen in neatimage, levels, curves, contrast
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thank you thank you so much for your comments!
:) the ball is not big in reality, I jsut placed it very close to the camera while I was far behind it. that's it:)
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From Critique club,
Hi,
The most important part of this work is the concept itself. Which is presented in a very original way. As correctly pointed out by a critique, this resembles magritte in terms of juxtaposition of two different objects in an odd position (here there is also a contrast in color) to create a specific illusion. The positioning of colors, rich blue of the ball with a near neutral color of the body creates an uinteresting picture.
I am a student of composition, so i try to avoid extreme symmetry in any picture, here the human form has extreme symmetry, till at least the hand starts, which makes one half less interesting. This is not so with the ball as it has been lit differentially from two directions. If this differential assymetry is part of the message of the picture then I would rather not comment on it. I think this image captures attention but it has even more potential if the negative spaces on either sides are a little different.
Technically nothing according to me can be improved this is as close to perfect as it can get.
Regards
Kausik
I have no idea what Posthumous said in his comment - do you? :-) Very clever, very original, and nicely done, too! Of course, I'd have to subtract a point for the fact that you're young, in terrific shape, and have a terrific body - that's simply not fair. (And you do know I'm just teasing, right?) Nice work, young lady!
I'm suprised I didn't recognise you from the photo, and the title - he he he. Very good composition, that in my mind, should have scored higher. Well done ;^)
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