Been thinking about how to do this for a while....and then along came the challenge.
Shot in RAW.
Tweaked saturation, contrast, Blacks etc. in Camera Raw.
Opened in PS - duplicated image.
Tweaked Levels.
Cloned out dust spots.
Black and white filter conversion.
Sharpened.
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What an interesting photograph you have produced. After reading your comments i am very intrigued by the range of emotion you engendered here. Congratulations! That's not easy to do.
Indeed it is a fine example of perspective and suits the Challenge perfectly. It is 'artistic' rather than a record shot; that is you have interpreted the scene in your own way and style. Nice. I'm not sure why the boy seems almost cut out in the frame. He seems to have a little white halo all around him. Whatever happened there, possibly in post-processing, it works for the story you present. But it may have had something to do with the somewhat average score your image received.
Hard to tell if this would have worked as well with a lighter sky. But that could be one alternative. In any event, this is a good image that obviously worked exactly the way you wanted it to and it received some nice reviews.
You've been involved with DPC for just a few months now, and obviously you are enjoying your participation in the site. I very much appreciated the look at your portfolio.
I love and angle and pose of the kid. Utterly fantastic proccessing as well. Adds to the mythic feel of the shot. Wonderful. In my top five of the challenge. 9
Beautiful photo. This is one I really would like to get in the critique basket.
Reminds me both of the works of Alexander Rodchenko and Lenni Riefenstal namely her Olympia movie which was largely used in Rammstein's cover for Striped by Depeche Mode.
10*.
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