Edgy Gymastics Portrait

Mike J

This is my youngest in her competition leotard. She does TnT (trampoline and tumbling). I'm not happy with the cutout that I did so I need to go back and redo that but I was pretty happy with the end result. Lighting was an AB400 in a beauty dish directly above the camera and AB800's in strip boxes for the left and right rim lights.

I pretty much followed Joel Grime's tutorial on processing although I did throw in a step to run the image through Portrait Professional.

EphTwoEight

Its cool! Its attitude, its youth, its a keeper!

joshhuntnm

nicely done. Very modern.

puzzledpaul

I always wonder about scaling when seeing something like this, so - 3 questions

How tall is she?
Is she supposed to be standing on the floor of the bg building?
How high above floor level is the top of the dark painted section of wall?

pp

Mike J

EphTwoEight wrote: »

Its cool! Its attitude, its youth, its a keeper!

joshhuntnm wrote: »

nicely done. Very modern.

Thanks for commenting guys. She likes it so it passed that test as well.

puzzledpaul wrote: »

I always wonder about scaling when seeing something like this, so - 3 questions

How tall is she?
Is she supposed to be standing on the floor of the bg building?
How high above floor level is the top of the dark painted section of wall?

pp

I was a little worried about scale when I dropped her in but frankly I was more concerned about the believability of the lighting and the cut-out. To answer your questions:
4' 9"
Yes - she would be standing on the floor
I don't know. I didn't take the BG photo. If I had to guess, I would say 3 ft or so.

Do you find the scale to be so out of whack that the image is not believable?

FlyNavy

Excellent work!!!

Hackbone

Extraction looks wonderful and the shot is done very nicely!!

puzzledpaul

Mike J wrote: »

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Do you find the scale to be so out of whack that the image is not believable?

Probably ... I certainly made me wonder - enough to comment.

If shot of daughter was taken with cam at about her eye level (about 4ft 5in) then this height should match vanishing point of bldg lines height ... which is somewhat lower ... roughly between lowest point of neckline and top of 'K' like decoration.

Also, if top of black wall bit is, in fact, 3ft above floor level, then that makes the wall height approx 8ft ...which is the floor to ceiling height of the room in our house where I'm sitting.

However, this doesn't look like a domestic house / building ... more like something rather bigger with higher walls ... which'd make things even worse ... imo.

Sorry none of this is associated with original Q - but just as I saw it (probably because I'm very aware of horizons with my own area of interest)

pp