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Comment by posthumous:
Excellent use of backlighting to show just how broken this old barn is.

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Comment by MarkRob:
A little sharper focus would have been nice

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Comment by phreak:
great location

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Comment by SarahCJ:
He looks like Harry Potter!!!

<3 Sarah

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Comment by Jammur:
Like the John Lennon look (Who?) :)

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Comment by ThomLee:
Without the title, I'd never guess that this image had anything to do with the concept of "too late"

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Comment by ohiochase:
Nice photo. Contrast is pretty good.

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Comment by whiteroom:
great black white, like the square format

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Comment by CEJ:
Hello from the Critique Club!

I have studied your image and have the following to offer:

Composition/perspective - For a sports shot - taken at the moment - overall, this is not bad. Your subject(s) are clear and in focus. Your timing was good as you appear to have caught the main subject at the height of his jump. The fence in the background is a major distraction and appears to cut your subject off at the neck. Also, below the knees is cut off. You didn't list the lense you used, so hard to tell, but if you were not zoomed/positioned so close you could have made the same capture and then cropped to get the final result. This would have shown more 'action.'

Color - you listed 'partial desat' as one of your processing steps. I think this leaves the background a little flat instead of letting your foreground stand out. The colors of the subjects are strong enough to offer a nice contrast to the browns/greens of the background.

Lighting - very nice control of natural light. The jersey is not blown out at all although in direct sunlight. The skin tones look natural and not washed out or ghostly at all. The shadow on the second jumper makes him a little dark, but this is not a distraction.

Challenge requirements - without following a few sure bets, shutter speed is not necessarily a key element in an image. Your timing of capture - getting the jumper at his highest, also captures the hair in the movement which really gives the strongest element of action in this shot. It is this action that relays your shutter speed aspect. Well done.

Overall/my opinion - a different crop or zoom to allow more of the subject would have been a stronger image. Different location on the field to get better control over the background would have also helped with this image. Nice capture that demonstrates an eye for the shot and good timing.

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Comment by bseifipour:
Great capture.