This is a photo from a session I just did at my YMCA. This is Margreta, who is the subject of an earlier PAD. Among the things she teaches is dance, so I asked her to do some "dance stuff". Most of the them were various still poses (which I will try to get posted in Margreta's gallery in the YMCA/staff gallery. She did two leaps like this one, and I actually managed to catch each pretty much at the peak of her arc. In this one, I isolated her from the background (red curtains) and experimented with several substitutes. This one is a relatively light blue with an Gradient (black to white, i.e. completely masked to entirely transparent) adjustment layer. I tried a few alternate gradients, but didn't like them much. I tried this one and its inverse, then decided I wanted the image of her leaping from darkness into light. (Guess I must be in an up mood. :)) I tried some with no gradient, but varying opacity on the color layer, allowing the curtain folds to show through.
Other than that, this is pretty much just a snapshot.