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Challenge: Sports II (Basic Editing III)
Camera: Minolta DiMAGE Z1
Location: Partridge,kentucky
Date: Jul 12, 2005
Aperture: 1:2.8
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/250
Galleries: Sports, Action
Date Uploaded: Jul 12, 2005

title is a quote from Tim Duncan.

brightness up
saturations:
--up:red
--down:yellow,green,cyan,blue,magenta
saturation lightness:
--up: green,yellow
--down: magenta,cyan,blue
crop
resize
sharpen
noiseware 40%/50%
USM 67/7.1/121
save for web
"capture the action of the sport of your choice"
Im guessing this will score a 4.5...let see how close i really am. ;o)

Statistics
Place: 198 out of 296
Avg (all users): 4.7368
Avg (commenters): 5.5333
Avg (participants): 4.7167
Avg (non-participants): 4.7477
Views since voting: 1797
Views during voting: 424
Votes: 342
Comments: 15
Favorites: 0


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 Comments Made During the Challenge
07/19/2005 08:37:46 AM
wow...beautiful colors in this. very strong.
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07/17/2005 03:41:03 PM
Title way too long ... (no deduction) angle is not acute enough to make me feel like it was done on purpose. 5
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/17/2005 02:44:32 PM
Great concept. The trees in the background add a real dramatic quality to the shot - 7.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/16/2005 04:52:10 PM
title is too long
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/16/2005 02:09:07 PM
i don't think the selective desaturation works here because it makes the tree stand out, and the tree is not really a key element, IMO. that title is scary :/
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/14/2005 01:56:14 PM
Nice idea, but I am not sure selective desat is part of the rules for open challenges. i will give it a 7 but SC might DQ it.
07/14/2005 10:18:28 AM
A little too dark IMO. Seems to be at an awkward perspective - makes it a little hard to look at. Title is way too long.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/14/2005 09:48:51 AM
DOF and shutter speed are great. I like the slight blur in the hand and ball. You could have improved this by leveling your horizon.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/13/2005 12:01:03 PM
There are a couple of things going on in this image that are a problem. First and formost, is the shooters face being blocked. Second is cutting the shooter off at the waist. A very good photography teacher once said to me, Never-ever cut anyone off at a joint. Any joint. And I guess the last thing, is the tree in the back-ground. It is colored, while everything else is B&W, and it definately draws, my eye away from the main topics of the picture. I would have like to have seen the rim, the ball and the shorts, selectively colored, but not the tree.
There are some nice attributes to this image, but these problem areas seem to be weighing heavily in my scoring. <5>
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/13/2005 10:56:13 AM
I like how you left the color on her and the ball and nothing else.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/13/2005 08:14:24 AM
imo i would have liked to see the whole of the person and less of the left of the image.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/13/2005 04:53:29 AM
Nice action. Great lighting.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/13/2005 04:16:42 AM
Subject Impact: Nice visual impact
Meets Challenge: Meets Challenge
Technical: Average technical form
Composition: Could have been better
Creativity: Good Idea

Score: 5
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/12/2005 11:19:22 PM
horizon neds straightening, colors are dull
  Photographer found comment helpful.
07/12/2005 10:29:46 PM
Younger generation (color), older court (slight desat). I like what you did here. The tilt of the picture is really throwing me, though. That's my only major problem with this picture. A lesser suggestion: the picture could use some sharpening.
  Photographer found comment helpful.


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