water balloon

I gambled on some seriously old developer and got really strange negatives, lots of grain

and kind of posterized looking. But this picture looked sort of okay with that treatment.

I like the glowing light coming from the balloon. Wouldn't have noticed any posterization if you hadn't mentioned it.

Yes, it looks OK, and the lighting coming out of the balloon makes this shot very interesting. I like the DOF, but I wonder how it would look if we could see her blurried smile...

I actually do not see the posterization... The effect is good, will you patent it? ;-)

BTW, the image is very good. I can even imagine the expression in the girl's face. Alejandro

Beau,

 

I haven't commented on your stuff in so long... to prevent sounding like a broken record. But this one is really exceptional.

Amelia

The light on the balloon or the light coming out of the balloon! really makes this image. Out of focus also was the right choice (and seems unavoidable eitherway) thanks for sharing! Vasilis

Hi, Beau ~ I hope you don't mind, but I saw this shot, and for all the reasons above it is really eye catching. Because the t-shirt distracted me for a while, and also the placement of the balloon, I took a look at it this way, and just wanted to see the framing of it, and again, hope you don't mind. It's a very cool effect. (and certainly, I don't want it thrown at me ! )

..like she is handing over something remembered.