The Out: Fast Runner, Faster Ball
by levyj413

Comment:
This has grown on me from when I first viewed it.

While it's obviously nice to have captured the ball in the shot, what really works for me is the diagonal it forms between the ball entering top left, and the catcher waiting for it bottom right. The shot is perfectly cropped to keep both players in the frame forming another lower diagonal running bottom left to mid right, and the triangle of grass shows that there is more outside of this picture than just brown dirt.

The figures are crisp and clear, and have a natural tension between the one running and frozen in time, and the other frozen waiting for the ball to make it's way down the picture.

Or at least that's how I see it :- )

Good shot.

Quick on her feet
by Marella

Comment:
nice action shot. Ideally you would have had a shallower DoF to lose the cars in the background.

Ferry Speed
by jaysonmc

Comment:
great sky - nice moody lighting.

Plug Shock
by Eseia

Comment:
I'm sure it's me . . but I'm really not sure what this is meant to be saying about speed ? I shall try to look it up post challenge and see the explanation. Good luck.

Caution Caution
by skipperw

Comment:
Ideally I would like to have seen a bit more dust and dirt behind it, but that said the car couldn't be any crisper, and the colours offset the brown track perfectly. Really nice.

Free spirit
by linant

Comment:
Such a sweet shot. Love the angle and the colours.. Really good.

Wave Runners
by annig

Comment:
I'm not sure this could be any nicer. Great wave, delightful girls, excelent B&W conversion. All the more impressive in Basic Editing. Deserves to Ribbon.

Route 31
by notesinstones

Comment:
Be more impressive if the speedo read 85 instead of 48 : )

Nice shot - love the B&W and crop.

Lazy Spin
by bruski

Comment:
Delightful shot - deserves to do well.

Surfer Girl @ 1/4000
by Seanachai

Comment:
Pretty girl, wet t-shirt, surf and heck even in focus . .

Surely the top ten beckons : )

Seriously though - great capture.