Taken while on a walk with my favorite model, my daughter.
The tree really impressed me, as it towered over my daughter. I immediately thought of this challenge.
Lens: Canon 28-105mm f3.5-4.5 @ 28mm.
In PS, having a hard time keeping my edits to the rules, but here goes:
-rotate, saturation, channel mixer to convert to bw, levels to get a more high key feel, crop, resize, USM, border with a inner glow to give a soft feel to the outer edges.
I REALLY like this shot. It will most likely make it onto a wall in my house.
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Very nice. Wish I could see more detail in the person, but it is a nice shot. I don't quite see an "opposite" in it, as a person is not the opposite of the tree, but I can see if you were going with the tall/short opposition.
Good choice of black & white. I would have cropped it a little lower to avoid the other tree which is intruding on the frame. It's very still a very nice shot.
At first I didn't think this fit the opposites challenge, but I kept it up on my screen for a while and now I appreciate it much more. The lines of the figure's body, the position of the arms and contrasted with the boughs of the tree and the framing with the background of the water is very nice. The horizon looks just slightly off a little rotation would fix that.
There's just something about this image - this is about the 4th time I have come back to make comments. It's captivating and very well done. The pose of the model is precious. It shows "big" and "small" very well. You have reduced the effect of the terrible sky by placing the trees in optimum positions. I'm not fond of the border, but try not to let that influence my voting.
I guess my only reason for not giving it a 10 is very subjective - and something I can't explain. It doesn't really have a "wow" impact on me - but it's darn close.
The tilt of the girls head makes this shot IMO. I like the way this shot is pushed, it feels big and empty with this little person, rightfully placed in a much bigger world than she. Well done.
Very nice, but it seems a tad overexposed. The foliage on the tree in the upper left seems to be an unnaturally bright relative to the foliage on the right.
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