Campuchean dancers

[scully]

a performance of dancers in Cambodia. How do they do that?

[Shadowman]

Nicely composed.

[rpcrowe]

Very nicely composed. I like the way your focus is on the nearest dancer.

I used some noise control with NIK Dfine and also brightened and increased the contrast of the nearest dancers face, hand and the flower petal holder



Then I decided that darkening the rear dancers might help place more of an emphasis on the nearest dancer



If I were to do more, I might brighten the bodice of her blouse and the red material around her waist

[ionian]

A nicely constructed image Stephen - and Richard's edits have sorted out the comments I would make.

Here is really good video on noise reduction in Photoshop - if I was thinking about using the blur technique on this image, I would first mask the in-focus areas so as not to lose detail, but it's worth a watch, and possibly experiment with it in future edits with high ISO images.

[bnnrcn]

I like the composition and Richard's edit improved the image

[scully]

A nicely constructed image Stephen - and Richard's edits have sorted out the comments I would make.

Here is really good video on noise reduction in Photoshop - if I was thinking about using the blur technique on this image, I would first mask the in-focus areas so as not to lose detail, but it's worth a watch, and possibly experiment with it in future edits with high ISO images.

Thanks for the link, mate.

Here is my latest shot taking advice into account

[IzzieK]

I like your last edit, Stephen. Richard's edits looks good too...