Salsa

[kunaldaswani]

Shot this at my friends salsa competition. I like the shot. Hate the back ground. What do u guys think? any suggestions on loosing the background. Tried all i can but it ain't happening

[jiminyClickit]

kunaldaswani,

You never know what memory a photo will trigger: I'm reminded of the "Pieta" sculpture in Italy with the wonderful triangle composition. Sorry I do not remember what edit program you use, but almost anything could remove or certainly de-emphasize that background. What a stunner you will have then!

Why not submit this to the "What You Would Do" thread?

[clockdoc]

You did a great job of capturing the action at or near its peak to minimize motion. I agree with jiminyClicket's comments on the background as it is a bit distracting. Try using a cloning tool to blend the figures into the background as wellas to lessen the intensity of the spotlights/reflections a bit. My eye wants to travel past the dancers to the bright light. Nice job! Thanks for sharing your work with us.

[sdjl]

What a nice crisp shot you managed to get. Well done

[jiminyClickit]

kunaldaswani,

Do not give up on this one. Take your time, remove the background, blend dancers' edges carefully. Give them a low shadow. Add a gradient mask using colors of your choice for the new background, a little frame.

[Becky Pimlico]

How about if you select the dancers and then distort the background a bit. Here's my attempt..



I took the light out quite crudely but if you spent some time on it, it could look ok. The only problem for me is that I like the shiney floor, which I lost with my method.

[jiminyClickit]

Becky Pimlico,

Got any shiny floor photos you could slip in behind them?

[kunaldaswani]

Thanks for your comments clockdoc and sdjl.

jim, your post processing skills just amaze me more each day. I just love the job you did on the cut out, its perfect! Love the shadow drop. Thanks for taking time to work on my picture.

Becky, Where did the picture go?

Thanks everyone!

[purplepixie]

Beautiful dance shot! Use a smaller F-stop next time to blur out the background. You can do it to this image by selecting and blurring the background.

I took the liberty of making a rough adjustment to your image (hope you don't mind). I used the Quick Mask in Photoshop the select the background, roughly Rubber Stamped out the people , Gausian Blurred at about 2 and put a tiny amount of Grain all over to blend it together. Sorry about the slight halo - the resolution is a bit low to make a really tight selection.

Jiminy: I like your edit - great for Poster use - you could easily drop some copy into the top for their next show!

[kunaldaswani]

Originally Posted by purplepixie

Beautiful dance shot! Use a smaller F-stop next time to blur out the background. You can do it to this image by selecting and blurring the background.

I took the liberty of making a rough adjustment to your image (hope you don't mind). I used the Quick Mask in Photoshop the select the background, roughly Rubber Stamped out the people , Gausian Blurred at about 2 and put a tiny amount of Grain all over to blend it together. Sorry about the slight halo - the resolution is a bit low to make a really tight selection.

Jiminy: I like your edit - great for Poster use - you could easily drop some copy into the top for their next show!

Purple Pixie,

Great Job! Will try doing the same Thanks for sending time on my image