Reflections in the sand

well spotted great work….....

stunning use of SC

Great pic chick. Love the reflection.

Very cute…I love this idea!

Great idea.

I just love the way you used the SC here….excellent work and image

thank you everyone. your comments are great

Nice idea and very good work.

I love the way you only colored the reflection…great image!

Brilliant concept poppykitten…great shot too!!!

great use of sc. love this!

very creative fantastic work, wonderful. I love this Min

Perfect composition for this group, great job on the coloring.

another fantasitc shot well done

Wonderful reflection & fantastic selective colouring!!!

this is brilliant !!

No that is so cool .. love it..

oops that is suppose to say now…not no

G’day PoppyK,

This has “K- U – T – E!” oozing from every pixel.
Very creative use of selective colour for this lovely reflective kiddie-by-the-sea shot.
The child’s pose make me look down as well and this means you have done a remarkable job in depicting this scene.

However there are two concerns for me:

1. Your composition is too central and static and to me there seems to be too much “photograph” and not enough “kid/reflection”.
The only way to correct this would be to make a fairly heavy crop placing the child/reflection slightly off centre to our right as the child/reflection seems to be “leaning” to our left. An 8×10 crop would make this a standard size and create enough width to achieve this.

2. You should have zoomed right in when making the colourization as there is a pink toe on the right boot.
You could either redo this or use the Clone Stamp in Photoshop to turn the offending area grey.

Nicely done!

GB
Dennis

G’day again PoppyK,

Thank you for the feedback.

Creating a sense of isolation is quite OK but WHERE you place the subect is most important.
If you have made a photograph with all lines/eyes leading to the subject then having the subject central is the way to go.
But you do not have such leading lines here and centralising the subject makes the image look static and a bit ho-hum.
HOWEVER, if you place the subject towards a corner, on a “Thirds” line intersection you still achieve a sense of isolation but create a much more interesting image.

GB
Dennis

Yup!

You could leave a bit more space at the top but I like the off centre placement.
I did not mean to steer you away from your idea of making the subject isolated so I feel you could both keep that mood but with the subject towards a corner in a larger setting.

I like the nice grey toe on the boot! ;-)

GB
Dennis

I think it is great.

Wow, eeeeee…..........what a brilliant photograph.

This is wonderful a brilliant idea.

I love this! Unique and well done, the sc is excellent, well done.

So cute!

this is so fantastic !!

see, i liked it with the fence posts in the background though .. i think it gave it some more movement .. gave it a true essensce of the area where the pic was taken.

just my two cents worth LOL

Can I jump in here? I think Dennis was right. To me, your last crop is so much better, with the subject more to the right. I agree that a little more on top would be nice, but “as is” might be the best, as exposing the posts might be too close to the top. Also, and importantly, I think the size of the child and reflections within the frame is the best in #3. It’s a really great picture. I adore #3!!

This is beautiful x

Hi Poppykitten, I like your original crop (although yes, boot needed fixing). I agree with frumphood’s comments 3 days ago, although I can see where he’s coming from too :-)

this is great!

Amazing, congratulations on winning the selective colour comp.

Congratulations Min on winning the compatition, you deserve it, fantastic work.x

Whatever way you crop it, I just like the idea. I like Denni’s comments on this image, he certainly presents ideas that all of us can remember when cropping our work. I’d also rotate this whole image 1degree anti-clockwise, but that could just be my eyes!

well done Min I knew this one would win. Congrats

Thank you everyone for your great comments and your votes, I am feeling the love xxx

Beautiful… great job…

What a fantastic idea! Love it!

Great work!
Actually, I think both the original (minus pink toe!) and the cropped version each have their own merits and achieve different emphases. :-)

one of the best selective desaturation images i think i have seen. works brilliantly with the reflection. cheers

This is super sweeeeet!

Very very nice work of selective coloring… This is going straight to my favourites list!

Awesome coloring

Awesome SC! It is truly amazing!

Thats cool

very cool sc!

Through a child’s eyes…love this! Well captured…