My 8 year old granddaughter peeping through some openings in a brick wall. I really like the slightly disorienting look, from her face being sideways and only partially exposed.
Good thing this was advanced editing and I had a RAW to work from. My fill flash washed out the lower part of the bricks more than it lit the face behind them. In JPEG, I don't think I could have pulled this much detail out of it. I used a lot of area selections in order to adjust the different sections independently, But I think it all pulled together.
-Import RAW into Paint Shop Pro
-Selected lower part of brickwork and adjust curves to match with upper half
-selected inner part and adjusted curves to bring out detail
-Clarify
-Fussed for several hours over exactly how to crop it.
-Border
-Resize
-sharpen
Pre-challenge notes:
I won't even hazard a guess at how this will do. Votes on my entries have been all over the place of late, so something in the 4's won't surprise me (A high 5 would be nice, though). I really like this, but the view may be a little too odd to hit the "broad appeal" target.
Post-challenge notes:
Well, I was wrong again! This one came in better than I had hoped. I need to go edit the goals on my profile page, as this one knocks the last 5 off of it. Can I play with the big boys now?
Statistics
Place: 19 out of 131 Avg (all users): 6.1437 Avg (commenters): 6.7857 Avg (participants): 5.8448 Avg (non-participants): 6.2931 Views since voting: 2466 Views during voting: 330 Votes: 174 Comments: 20 Favorites: 4 (view)
Dude, this is just lovely!!! What a great scrambled perspective! It is sooooooo like a child. You have captured the impish essence wonderfully! Well done!
Somehow I missed this challenge entirely, and this shot. Excellent composition - the eye, the hand, the knee - all backed by that gorgeous hair. And gotta say she looks older than 8. They grow up entirely too fast these days, don't they?
very nice idea and very good composition. the warm colors of her skin works really good . And the details in her eye are fantastic. - You've done a great job here! - Congrats on a top 20 finish!
Fussed for several hours over exactly how to crop it.
Ahhh...the DPChallenge bug has bitten you big time, eh? :-D Amazing how much time can get sucked up into post-processing isn't it? Myself included at times.
Hopefully your crop left you enough image for a decent size print of this. :-) A keeper for sure! Your extra time spent paid off nicely.
I love the composition here! The complementary colors of her face & the brick work nicely. That little chunk of mortar hanging just in the corner of her eye emphasing only one eye visible, but it gives me a feeling of impending doom. ("be careful, don't poke your eye out"). But maybe that's just my dark side influencing me.
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