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Challenge: Table Shot II (Basic Editing)
Camera: Nikon D50
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
Location: Billiards Room
Date: Jan 27, 2007
Aperture: 3.6
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/2
Galleries: Vintage, Action
Date Uploaded: Jan 28, 2007

 I took a bunch of pictures of the pool table with my roommate breaking the balls. Then took it into photoshop, converted to grayscale and then to tritone, added an unsharp mask and minimal levels.


Post-Challenge:
I completely agree with everyone about the stuff in the background. I played with a bunch of different crops, and this is the best one I came up with. Unfortunately, the challenge was basic editing, so I couldn't clone anything out.

Also, the eight-ball in the middle just happened to stay still as a result of my roommate's break, nothing to do with me ;-) Here's a version with editing and in color:

Statistics
Place: 14 out of 180
Avg (all users): 6.3675
Avg (commenters): 6.8333
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Votes: 234
Comments: 24
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
02/06/2007 06:01:42 PM
cool capture! 7
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 02/05/2007 08:45:41 PM
Wow! Nice action shot.
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 02/05/2007 07:07:39 AM
nice image i like motion with the seamingly motionless 8 ball
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 02/04/2007 05:14:18 PM
Neat effects
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 02/04/2007 08:06:14 AM
i like it
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 02/03/2007 04:44:11 PM
Excellent! How'd you manage to keep the 8 ball stationary? Was it shot first?
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 02/02/2007 01:04:09 PM
Great shot!
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 02/02/2007 06:27:03 AM
Very Cool, maybe would be more of an impact if it were cropped a bit, ex. no picture no tv.
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 02/01/2007 06:43:52 PM
nice break
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 02/01/2007 08:16:28 AM
Like the "action"
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 01/31/2007 07:11:45 PM
Pretty amazing idea and image - I just wish you had taken the time to align the horizontals - table edges - with the image frame. I would also have cropped a whole lot tighter to exclude the tv and pictures on the wall ... maybe even most of the body and just left in from hip down?
 01/31/2007 06:10:57 PM
Nicely done. He's a little blurry, but I'm sure it'd be next to impossible to get him more crisp.

The only thing to make this shot perfect is to crop out the distractions like the TV and chair.

Well done and good luck.
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 01/31/2007 02:51:32 PM
This is really interesting.....seems that perhaps it might have been even more dynamic in color?
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 01/31/2007 02:10:02 PM
I really like the stationary 8 ball in the eye of the storm. Shame about some of the distracting half-objects in the background (especially the reflection in the corner of the picture).
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 01/31/2007 12:24:08 PM
if this was at your hose, you could have improved the area by taking that picture off the wall. then you could crop a lot closer to the player and not have so much room behind him. it's not really on the table as such but with such a risky shot, i totally understand..
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 01/31/2007 11:18:49 AM
thats a cool picture a little dark and could use some more contrast
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 01/31/2007 08:00:48 AM
very very very cool idea... love it, i wish it were in color though, and all the balls were moving with a blur of their color behind them... that would be cool too...
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 01/31/2007 07:03:08 AM
i like the way the 8 ball is going in every direction very cool
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 01/31/2007 06:48:11 AM
Nice one but I would have made it a square crop to centralise the 8 ball and cut out the TV.
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 01/31/2007 05:06:23 AM
that is cool how is it that the eight ball is the only one not moving. It's pretty cool how you guys do that.
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 01/31/2007 03:55:38 AM
a slightly lower crop would have removed one of the distracting elements (the TV) the chair and the frames don't add to the action (imho of course)
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 01/31/2007 03:43:44 AM
idea is great ... but your crop has really let you down.
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 01/31/2007 02:43:48 AM
Great shot (pun intended!)! Maybe a little more cropped off the top but my choice for the top 3!
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 01/30/2007 07:26:35 PM
wow! really cool...you can almost hear the break! 8
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