Visiting Grandma usually brings about visits to parks. Grandma can sit and watch and the kids can run around. With each passing year, the kids get a little bigger and the playgrounds seem a little smaller. My oldest is 'done' with playgrounds, but James still has the glint in his eye and enjoys the visits to the neighborhood playscape.
I took these photos while watching the kids play on the playground. The light was really pretty good and my son seemed to be having a great time. I didn't think I had anything to enter the Free Study this month, but I wanted to put together a tribute to the fast fleeting moments of my kid's youth.
Here is my best effort. I hope it is liked by DPC half as much as I do, but I gather these are not super DPC friendly...
Pretty standard processing on each individual image - curves, exposure, and hue/saturation adjustment. Noise Ninja to smooth out a little and add some local contrast. Saved each individually and built collage in successive layers.
Score prediction: 5.8
Post Challenge: It finished about where I expected...Thanks for the two comments during voting. I really appreciate - the one from luv2photo - very informative about choice of eye contact etc.
Originally had planned to enter the bottom right image alone, but the Expert editing got me to thinking that a collage would work better - but it probably didn't...
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Peter - this is a great triptych. It is something your family will cherish forever, which is worth a lot more than a high score in a virtual photography challenge! I especially like the bottom right photo. It's eye-catching.
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