Chris Prior
March 2025 - Happy Hallie
About the Image(s)
Canon 20D with Canon 400 f5.6 lens 1/2000sec f8 ISO 400
I shot this image 1st March 2025 at my surfboard riders club monthly competition. I choose this image because I love the facial expression and how much fun and happiness it exudes. Opened in camera RAW where I increased contrast and lightened shadows before cropping & importing to Photoshop where I went back into camera RAW via FILTER>CAMERA RAW FILTER and added a subtle vignette. Did some dodging on face and body shadows and burned small area of wave face adjacent to knees/ surfboard and also white water on the right edge. Finally converted to mono by creating a new fill adjustment layer and selecting SOLID COLOR (black) and COLOR blending mode on 100% opacity.
This round’s discussion is now closed!
5 comments posted
Nice action photo. I would not change anything.
Posted: 03/14/2025 13:12:03
Posted: 03/14/2025 13:12:03
Grace Yang
Great moment to capture. The subject body shapes like a S curve Posted: 03/14/2025 18:52:51
Patrick O’Brien
Good crop and shutter speed. All good. Posted: 03/15/2025 20:58:57
Great capture and superb facial expression. She almost looks posed in front of a poster! Posted: 03/19/2025 16:13:55
The imags of the person, board and waves are excellent and well placed in the frame to show off all three. I might consder a light crop of the left, but that is cerainly just an opinion. I personally think I would prefer to have the water a bit darker and more contrast and detail in the water. Posted: 03/31/2025 00:17:28