Very Candid: catching men’s leg!?

Ted Szukalski

This stunning blond girl zoomed past me while I was on my way back to work from lunch. She was in an obvious hurry as her over exaggerated hand movements indicate. As I took the photo I realised I’ve captured it in an exact moment when her hand aligned with the leg of the man in the background. I looks like she is about to trip him - just a perspective based visual humour.



This photograph required a bit of post processing: firstly I did not have my Canon 580EX flash with me and could not use fill in light. As a result the girl, which was walking with the sun, turned out too dark in comparison to the scene. I’ve used a rarely used “Equalise” function in Adobe Photoshop to increase the brightness. Remaining processing was limited to a simple black and white conversion and some minor sharpening.



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urbanaries

Ted Szukalski wrote:

This stunning blond girl zoomed past me while I was on my way back to work from lunch. She was in an obvious hurry as her over exaggerated hand movements indicate. As I took the photo I realised I’ve captured it in an exact moment when her hand aligned with the leg of the man in the background. I looks like she is about to trip him - just a perspective based visual humour.



This photograph required a bit of post processing: firstly I did not have my Canon 580EX flash with me and could not use fill in light. As a result the girl, which was walking with the sun, turned out too dark in comparison to the scene. I’ve used a rarely used “Equalise” function in Adobe Photoshop to increase the brightness. Remaining processing was limited to a simple black and white conversion and some minor sharpening.



Click on the link or the image to see a bigger photograph and EXIF.

I always enjoy seeing your work, Ted, you are so consistent. your images are easy on the eyes, yet real, and always with a touch of levity. This is a good example! thanks for sharing.

Ted Szukalski

Thank you Lynn
I think it is no secret I enjoy sharing them as much as I enjoy taking them.

urbanaries wrote:

I always enjoy seeing your work, Ted, you are so consistent. your images are easy on the eyes, yet real, and always with a touch of levity. This is a good example! thanks for sharing.

urbanaries

Ted Szukalski wrote:

Thank you Lynn
I think it is no secret I enjoy sharing them as much as I enjoy taking them.

who doesn't!!??

Scott_Quier

Ted Szukalski wrote:

I’ve used a rarely used “Equalise” function in Adobe Photoshop to increase the brightness. Remaining processing was limited to a simple black and white conversion and some minor sharpening.

As with all the others posting on your shots, I love seeing your work. They are always a treat. This one is no exception - it is a truely wonderful image.

However, if you'll allow me, I do think you need to take this back into PS and re-work it. There are distinct and distracting halos around the young lady. For example, check out her right fore-arm and hand as they cross that very dark mass.

Ted Szukalski

Scott, the halos are actually light reflection. They are there in the original, unprocessed RAW too. And the angle of her arm makes it very jagged. I've spend hours on this and cannot remove it so it doesn't look odd.

Scott_Quier wrote:

As with all the others posting on your shots, I love seeing your work. They are always a treat. This one is no exception - it is a truly wonderful image.

However, if you'll allow me, I do think you need to take this back into PS and re-work it. There are distinct and distracting halos around the young lady. For example, check out her right fore-arm and hand as they cross that very dark mass.

Scott_Quier

Ted Szukalski wrote:

Scott, the halos are actually light reflection. They are there in the original, unprocessed RAW too. And the angle of her arm makes it very jagged. I've spend hours on this and cannot remove it so it doesn't look odd.

With that information, it's easy to see that it is, in fact, light bouncing/reflecting from the walk-ways. You having spent hours trying to remove it makes me feel better about having made that mistake.

That still doesn't detract from my first statement about the photo - excellent!