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07/26/2005 12:12:48 PM |
Greetings from the Critique Club :)
This is a great stop action image. Your timing and shutter speed were excellent, allowing just a slight blur of the bat to show the movement taking place. The focus is razor sharp and the lighting is good to show detail. Your Point Of View, at level with the subject, is good.
Compositionally, the subject has excellent placement. Also, the triangle formed by the arms leads the viewer's eye right to the bat. The viewer then follows the bat down to the end. This is effective. The round yellow ball is in contrast to the lines of the fence and lines of the subject. This, combined with its yellowness (there is no other yellow within the image), really attracts a viewer to that spot - a very effective use of shape and color.
I would agree with the previous commentors that the background is distracting. I can see that you shot this with f4 - this wouldn't allow you to get the blur you would need without moving much closer to the subject. Also, this was a basic challenge so post processing the background with a blur was a no-no. Since you have no choice but leave the background as it is, maybe a looser crop on the top so the observers are not beheaded would be in order.
Overall, this is an excellent representation of a stop action shot. |
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07/18/2005 03:34:31 PM |
| Nice stop action shot here. |
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07/17/2005 03:53:03 PM |
| Good stop action shot, it's just the background that is a little disturbing. |
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07/17/2005 04:46:17 AM |
clarity/contrast/color: 2/2
composition,POV,DOF: 1/2
effort+originality: 1/2
theme appropriate: 2/2
aesthetic timelessness+emotion: 1/2 |
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07/14/2005 12:58:12 PM |
| This is good stop action. A hit would add but not this time. The crop seems to much unless distractions were present. The observers add. |
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07/13/2005 07:36:00 PM |
| Nowhere near! Good capture. |
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07/13/2005 12:13:10 PM |
| You should try a higher f/stop to blur out the noisy background. other than that it,s a great spots pic |
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07/13/2005 09:42:46 AM |
| Good composition on this shot. |
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07/13/2005 07:41:09 AM |
| Nice take, interesting though that as a non basball player I must chip in my 2cents. The ball travels a lot slower than the bat is swung. Nice comp, color,dof and action. |
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07/13/2005 12:25:48 AM |
| nice action, imo lesser dof will help to fix the viewer's eye to the batter, 8 |
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