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Pick a ball (Tommy Armour 4)
Pick a ball (Tommy Armour 4)
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Photograph Information Photographer's Comments
Challenge: Round (Classic Editing)
Collection: ZZ DPC failures
Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S602Z
Location: backyard, home
Date: Jul 15, 2003
Aperture: F2.8
ISO: 160
Shutter: 1/5000s
Galleries: Sports, Macro
Date Uploaded: Jul 15, 2003

 Pic of a set of golfballs I found at the age of 16 at the Trelleborg Golfcourse (Sweden). I have had one training and they say I can hit the ball pretty well, but the putting is a nightmare.

I played around with positioning them, laying in the grass on my side at 30 degrees celcius in the baking sun. Macro mode tried at F2.8 to F11. Got 30 useable pics, I like this one the best. Focus was on the yellow Tommy Armour ball and the yellow gives an interesting flavour to the image.

Other subjects were marbles, braking discs (perforated motorcycle ones) and an exhaust.

Camera Setup:
* Macro Mode
* Max telezoom
* Manual mode F2.8 1/5000s
* Autofocus & repositioning
* Auto Whitebalance
* Soft Sharpening

Photoshop workflow:
* Cropped
* Mode changed to 16bits RGB
* Channel Mixing
* Curves
* Mode changed to 8bits RGB
* Resampled to 640px wide
* Mode changed to Lab Color
* Lighness channel
* Unsharp Mask 300% 0,4 radius 0 treshold
* Mode changed to RGB
* Save for the web at 84%


Statistics
Place: 223 out of 293
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Views since voting: 914
Votes: 199
Comments: 3
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/20/2003 06:15:43 PM
I like this one. It's simple but has a sense of humor!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 07/16/2003 03:46:19 PM
the gold balls are overused in this challenge.
 07/16/2003 05:05:30 AM
haha very cute. good focus on the yellow subject. effective use of shallow depth. good shot!
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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