Two of my three nieces, Jessica (whose face you can see) and Ciara (whose face you can't see), on a trampoline which was bought only a few days ago. And it was in BC so there could easily have been aliens around :-) Shot with me laying down on tramp, so very difficult - nah impossible in fact - to get both girls fully in the frame at the same time. Thank gawd for idiot mode on the D40!
pp: clone out minor background stuff and debris on trampoline, curves, brightness/contrast, saturation, warming filter, crop, create layer and flatten image, resize, usm 2x, save for web
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Place: 92 out of 123 Avg (all users): 5.1265 Avg (commenters): 4.5000 Avg (participants): 4.8727 Avg (non-participants): 5.2523 Views since voting: 1097 Views during voting: 307 Votes: 166 Comments: 6 Favorites: 0
Okay, this is funny. I like how the girls are not in the frame -- it adds to that feeling of being pulled up and out of the frame. Actually seeing the trampoline kinda detracts from the "illusion," but without it, there would be no basis for a "game."
Technically, the exposure and lighting is good and the frozen action is really good. There is an odd effect (almost an edginess) visible, though, especially in the denim skirt. It looks like it was perhaps slightly underexposed, so it was brightened, then noise reduction used to reduce the noise. Not sure that was the process, so if not, try it on a picture and maybe you can see what I'm talking about.
Overall, it is a creative effort, but I suspect that some of the lower votes may have been because there is not a recognizable or familiar game in the shot.
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