Taken handheld, single capture, from about 50 yards. My son at the top of his takeoff in a competitive swim meet.
Edits in ACDSee 9
1. rotate left to true vertical
2. Crop square
3. adjust luminance
4. adjust color: tweak saturation and lightness
5. remove individual noise pixels
6. sharpen
7. apply vignetting
8. resize
Would welcome all commments.
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First off - Great timing!!! You really caught a great pose and look. I wonder what your son thinks of it. It is a fun and entertaining image thats for sure.
A couple of issues that I had with it that may have prevented a higher score were the soft focus (but at the distance you were shooting from that could be expected), some of the skin tones look a bit odd and I am really not digging the vignette. I am guessing you were shooting for a perspective of looking down a gunbarrel or something. Its just a bit much for me. Also a bummer you had the two guys standing behind. If it had just been your son that would have been pretty cool. But whatcha gonna do. You deal with what you get.
Overall an entertaining pic, but lacking the technicals and the extra wow power to really score a whole lot better than it did. That said I cant imagine that you would give this pic up for anything. I look forward to seeing your future entries!
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