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Challenge: Serendipity (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Sony DSC-P32
Location: Greenville Sports Park, Red Field, Greenville TX
Date: Apr 17, 2004
Aperture: 1:5.6
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/640s
Galleries: Sports, Action
Date Uploaded: Apr 17, 2004

 The Greenville Phillies were on fire today! The season opener against the Greenville Cubs will go down in our record books as one of our fastest victories...16-1 in 3 innings! I took over 100 pictures, and I was very far away. I had to work my way around looking through the chain link to get anything, and my camera doesn't have a zoom, so this one has been cropped A LOT to get in close. I was so SURPISED to see the ball right there, about to hit our catcher's glove! I know it's not Sports Illustrated, but for moms like me, it's priceless. After cropping, I adjusted the basic levels and added the border in Photoshop.

Statistics
Place: 192 out of 215
Avg (all users): 4.1200
Avg (commenters): 3.8571
Avg (participants): 3.7570
Avg (non-participants): 4.3512
Views since voting: 1346
Votes: 275
Comments: 16
Favorites: 0

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 02/12/2007 11:13:06 PM
priceless indeed. Who the hell gives a shot like this a 1? I'm so jaded, I probably would have given a 7 or 8 had I voted.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
04/25/2004 10:39:27 PM
Nice getting the ball in the picture. Could be a little sharper and I would nix the big border. It takes away from the picute and the eye keeps going to it and not the shot
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 04/25/2004 09:16:43 PM
I like the baseball card border. I also thnk this shot took too much planning/work to be truly serendipity. Great shot though. 10
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 04/25/2004 10:44:44 AM
This is a good shot, but it does not fit the challenge very well. The timing is very good.
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 04/25/2004 12:41:20 AM
Nice stop action. The red boarder seems a little distracting from the action in the photo. Leaving a simple white boarder might have been a little more subtle and less harsh.
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 04/24/2004 11:41:09 AM
That border has got to go.
 04/24/2004 02:02:51 AM
Perfect action shot! Too bad the umpire's right arm isn't showing motion. The large red border codt you a point.
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 04/23/2004 07:28:22 PM
Nice stop-action photo. I think cropping out the umpire (and the lady behind him) would have focused attention on the "moment" of the ball.
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 04/23/2004 07:57:04 AM
Wow, catching the ball like that takes practice & luck!
Photo is a bit soft, and I definitley don't like the frame. I guess the colour matches the sox & catcher, but they aren't the subject.
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 04/23/2004 01:50:00 AM
very soft...no relation to serendipity
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 04/23/2004 12:39:57 AM
very nice action shot but not sure how this is serendipitous
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 04/23/2004 12:17:25 AM
a great action shot, catching the ball at just that moment. I don't care much for the border though and I wish I could see the batter's face a bit better.
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 04/22/2004 01:41:18 PM
I definitely would have scored this higher without the rather obnoxious red border... whoa...!
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 04/22/2004 10:15:50 AM
How can this be serendipity? if the aim of baseball for the pitcher is to get a strike and he does this through normal means, then how can this be an accidental discovery?
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 04/22/2004 01:37:54 AM
Not sure about relevance to theme.
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 04/21/2004 11:30:17 AM
What's the serendipity aspect?
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