My daughter, sliding down a recently-rained-upon slide that made her slide quicker, and wetter. I panned with her so she wouldn't be a total blur, but I was hoping to get more of her face in focus, but with young subjects, you get what you can.
Shot RAW, applied some Recovery in Bridge, converted to JPEG, in Photoshop: levels, cropped, curves, resized, unsharp mask, saved for Web.
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Big bold color patches give it a great painterly look (Van Gogh, Gaugin?) -- this might have fared better in the Impressionism challenge, where I suspect people were more tolerant of blur.
Personally, I think I'd mask off and darken the background showing on the left side, especially the sky area, as it really tends to pull the eye towards the upper-left corner, in the opposite direction of your subject's motion. I think making it darker would reduce the effect.
Now I have to check and see if I don't have some blurry pictures of my kid on a slide ... ;-)
Would be better if the slide was blurry and the girl in focus or the girl blurry and the slide in focus. Both blurry makes it look like you post-processed for motion are had too slow of a shutter speed.
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