Purgatory Creek. Self-portrait. And I didn't fall in! :-) Used timer, counted, and jumped to rock, then ran back to check shot (over and over and over again). LOL I'm sure I looked like a complete idiot!
PP included:
crop
selective layers of gaussian blur, color sat, contrast, change hue, exposure/lighting
burn brush
blend & clone brushes to clean up a few spots
neat image
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Post Challenge:
Obviously, I should have captured my foot above the rock BEFORE I landed (or entered my outtake). Oh well... ;-)
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Obviously these poor folk have never been rock hoppin over a crick on a cold spring mornin in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia. If they had they'd know you sure as heck better Jump or you'll freeze somethin you might need right smackdab off! LOL Sis
Let me start off by saying for me it doesn´t really meet the challenge, the photo itself has no action going on, for me the challenge meant to take a photo of some kind of jump where something or someone was in mid air and also the title doesn´t help in this regard since balance really implies that the person in the photo isn´t about to jump but rather standing still and not trying to fall down, a jump the farthest thing from his mind.
Technically it´s a nice photo, well lit with the expection of the slight blown out highlights on the stone you are standing on. Composition is nice also, I like that you can just see the legs and you cut off the right leg just above the knee. The left leg though bothers me a bit, think I would have liked it better if it were either totally out of the frame or more in it, the foot being there too. I like the backround and the shallow DOF, I see you did that in the post processing and you could have fooled me, I am usually quick to spot fake lens blur but here it didn´t even occur to me till I saw the camera used and the photographers comments. I like the colours, contrast and sharpening and think you did a nice job with the post processing.
Mainly because of the non jump factor in this challenge I can honestly say I would have voted it a 4. If this was a balance challenge I would have given it a 6 since it´s technically nice but doesn´t have that wow factor, 6 is something I give to above average photos that miss that certain "wow factor". I can at least certainly understand the low score but I think it´s solely because of DNMC votes.
I guess people don't know what it is like to rock-hop around a river or creek. I like the DoF of the shot and the colors are strong. Nice contrasts as well.
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