LAB curves (a couple of times), crop, cont +10, desat -60, smart sharp and added border, save for web.
Shot this while camping with my kids..we had a great time. On this hike, I got to play prince and princess (great game play it all the time), help my son take a crap in the woods, and carry my daughter for a bit (we went about 5km)...it was fun.
For some reason wanted to desaturate this eough so that it is barely a colour shot...no logic just a feeling.
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During the challenge, I rated this image a 5. My first impressions were that the subject met the challenge but the post processing made the image look scary instead of pleasurable. Coming back to review this image, it dawned upon me that the scariness could have been muted by cropping out half of the negative space above the girl. This would have made the trees look a little less ominous and by eliminating the bright light coming through the trees, provided a softer feel to the image to reflect the intentional desaturation.
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What I like most about this is that the noise and clutter of the vegetation makes it seem aggressive and adds a sense of scariness to the shot, but there is also a sense of supreme confidence in the girl. Scariness + confidence = Adventure!! Maybe that's why the quasidesaturation works, because it gives it a pulp-novel-cover feel.
Consider cropping a little, making the girl more of a focus and getting rid of the upper left hand corner (it is distracting). By doing this, you could then add more contrast and more detail in the leaves.
This should have been a B&W. There just isn't enough color in the bushes to keep it a color image. Perhaps making the image B&W and keeping the girl in color would have helpe give this image the punch it needs.
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