DNG to Jpeg transformation in Adobe Camera RAW 4.2, Auto-Levels, Auto-Contrast, Auto-Color Correction, Auto-Sharpen, Cropped, Total Desat in Adjustment Layer, then Changed Blending to Luminosity and Reduced the Opacity, Merged Visible, Auto-Sharpened, USM, Saved for Web...
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Place: 67 out of 80 Avg (all users): 4.9017 Avg (commenters): 6.1111 Avg (participants): 4.3438 Avg (non-participants): 4.9901 Views since voting: 818 Views during voting: 350 Votes: 234 Comments: 10 Favorites: 0
The wide shot works for this one to get everyone in there. Nice crop. Wish there was a bit more definition to the faces but you'd probably need a bigger picture to get that from it.
An excellant image of the unbridled job of being a child. Soccer at this age level could fairly be called "everybody chase the ball" and this image demonstrates that perfectly. And excellant capture that captures the nature of youth fitness and the free spirited job of just having fun. A top ten image and most certainly a ribbon winner.
They all have such chubby little cheeks, they're so adorable. The people in the background are distracting, try a shallower depth of field to blur them out. Also, in stock photography it's my understanding that you would need release forms for allll of them from their parents, what a pain that would be ;) I think it's too much of a snapshot to do well in a stock photography challenge, but it sure is cute.
I am not voting on this image but if I did I would more than likely give it a 4 or lower.
Let me explain, I "personally" don't think you met the challenge's request to take an image of a "stock" photo of fitness. Your photo isn't bad or physically hard to do but I just don't think it's a "stock" or "fitness" style image.
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