Court's in session
by mercaptan

Comment by bvy:
The blur works well against the reflected light. Great dynamic.

Court's in session
by mercaptan

Comment by Melethia:
The angle, the light, the slowish shutter, the monochrome all serve this very well. Nice essence of the pickup game. No bells and whistles, no slick advertising, just a little bit of basketball. One of my top three.

Pause in the argument
by mercaptan

Comment by graphicfunk:
The concept here is good. It just needed a little more control.

Court's in session
by mercaptan

Comment by bmartuch:
Neat perspective and I like the color tone.

Court's in session
by mercaptan

Comment by bohemka:
This is awesome.

Court's in session
by mercaptan

Comment by Skip:
wow. looks like something ed clarke would have shot, if he liked sports. he'd probably also tone it bw, but then, that's ed. this is my fave of the challenge, next to mine ;-) great job!

coming back to add, this is one of a handful of shots that make me say, 'damn, i wish i'd taken that...'

Pause in the argument
by mercaptan

Comment by sheajosh1:
I like this photo; even the 'off kilter' camera angle seems to work here. Great placement of what i assume to be yourself. Only thing i would improve on is on the person to the left. His right eye seems to have like a dot and its a huge contrast and my eyes went right there when i saw the pic. Overall very nice; i imagine you used the bulit in flash for the pic; but maybe try usinga difusor on it or a smaller aperature because the table is just a bit brighter than it should be; and you would get rid of a little bit of the background bringing our your subjects. Nice shot. 7

Pause in the argument
by mercaptan

Comment by kaiser_chief:
A really good idea here, but I feel the execution lets it down a bit. I note you have exposed the image for the surrounds, and presume you had a long exposure that allowed you to move positions. The negative that always comes with that method is the ghosting that occurs, and here the bright (and busy) background showing through does effect the overall result.
The use of flash in these cases (flash, change position, flash again) usually gives better results, as does being on a dark background so that there is less effect on your image.
But a great try at it.
Also, I am sure others have noticed, the image is tilted.........

Pause in the argument
by mercaptan

Comment by prashant_168:
Both the images of you have ghost effect.

You should have controlled the light settings more for a better picture

Pause in the argument
by mercaptan

Comment by nmrmak:
The subject(s) are too transparent, i think, and the facial expression on the right one is just too calm to be in an argument. His right hand looks more like he's going to hit the other guy than like he's in an argument. I learned the hard way (in this challenge) that in order to have the subject less transparent, you have to have the background as dark as possible, and the subject as well lit as possible.