Pretty Tough in Pink (C&C appreciated)

[picsfrommt]

I've been photographing some practice sessions for our local roller derby team. I have to say it's a great experience. Their practice sessions are a great place for me to practice action shots, working with bad light and working with people that love to have pictures taken. I highly recommend it.

Anyway, I took this last Monday and have been playing with it. The original shot was ISO400, f/5, 1/25 sec. and more or less 100mm on a cropped sensor. I say more of less because I zoomed in during the exposure. There was some good motion blur near the edges of the frame, but I decided to crop in close. There's still some motion blur on her elbows, but it is minimal.

I don't know if you can see it, but there's just the tiniest bit of post-processing.

Basically these images have 3 layers. From top to bottom those are
1) A transparent layer with just the edges rendered.
2) The skater posterized to about 20 colors.
3) The background, posterized and then converted to B/W.



derby20140224 001 copy - Version 2 by picsfrommt, on Flickr


I found the skater in the background distracting, so cloned her out of the picture. I also cropped it to a square format and got this



Pretty (tough) in Pink by picsfrommt, on Flickr

[IzzieK]

I wonder what the original looks like with just the skater. I like the background posterized as it is...

[Shadowman]

She looks menacing no matter what treatment you apply.

[picsfrommt]

She looks menacing no matter what treatment you apply.

I suspect she'd take that as a compliment.

[picsfrommt]

I wonder what the original looks like with just the skater. I like the background posterized as it is...

Here's the original


IMG_9489 by picsfrommt, on Flickr

I don't really like the color of the walls in the background. That's why I turned the background into B/W.

In my opinion, her shirt is just a little over the top. So I just desaturated everything to tone down the shirt.

I love the makeup around her eyes and her general meanness. I added the edge layer attempting to accentuate it.

As far as the posterization, no good reason. Just wanted to play.