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Challenge: Scene It! (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon PowerShot S3 IS
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Date: Aug 26, 2006
Aperture: 4.0
ISO: 80
Shutter: 1/640
Galleries: Sports, Photojournalism
Date Uploaded: Aug 29, 2006

 Ken Griffey, Jr. rips a high-inside pitch to right against the Giants -- not an actual home run, but you can't tell that at this point in the ball's trajectory : )

Along with another son of a major league All-Star, Barry Bonds, Griffey is about as close as you'd want to come in defining a "natural" ballplayer -- between them this pair has hit (as of 8/28/06) nearly 1300 home runs.

-RGB Curve
-Crop to square
-Resize for DPC
-USM at 12%/48 dia/TH = 0 (x 2 applications)
-SaveAs JPEG at quality 6/10 = 144kb

Statistics
Place: 61 out of 99
Avg (all users): 5.3096
Avg (commenters): 5.8000
Avg (participants): 4.7347
Avg (non-participants): 5.3913
Views since voting: 1135
Views during voting: 523
Votes: 394
Comments: 11
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AuthorThread
 09/06/2006 12:25:07 AM
Thanks for the comments -- I forgot to mention I was sitting up here:

Here's the uncropped version:

Message edited by author 2006-09-06 00:27:11.
 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/05/2006 09:09:05 AM
great action shot
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 09/03/2006 03:00:42 PM
My Favorite movie ever :) Nice capture!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/02/2006 09:52:38 PM
Great action shot. May be a little bright in my opinion but darkening would probably lose quite a bit of detail on the player.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/02/2006 01:36:28 AM
Nice -
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/31/2006 04:51:00 PM
I don't believe Ken Griffey was in the natural. but a great sport shot
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/30/2006 11:18:03 PM
If Ken Griffey played the lead role in the movie you'd have a home run here...but the ball curved foul at the last second and your score went south. Great shot though!
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/30/2006 12:44:43 PM
Good shot with nice composition..
Watch out for the sharpness of the man...
Try a faster shutter..
6 for me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/30/2006 07:08:11 AM
excellent composition and action, well done
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/30/2006 05:03:03 AM
Yep, could be a scene from a baseball movie. The shot could be more flattering for the hitter, but good sense of action.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 08/30/2006 05:01:41 AM
if only the bat and ball were in focus
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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