Before Football Players Wore Armour
by theSaj

Comment by ccraft:
The lighting in this seems a bit too harsh. Maybe try using a reflector or take the shot outside in the morning or early evening sun. The wrist guards are hard to make out with the chest guard since they're so close in colour. Good idea for a team sport though.

Before Football Players Wore Armour
by theSaj

Comment by melismatica:
This doesn't really say anything about sports. Your title is confusing. I think you mean football players used to wear armour, in reference to medieval games, but the wording actually suggest that football players wear armour *now* but this is what they used to wear. At any rate, nice try but I don't think this meets the challenge. As a still-life the subject is interesting but the composition adn the flat overhead lighting don't show it in an appealing way. The gauntlets look a bit out of focus.

Before Football Players Wore Armour
by theSaj

Comment by lockjawdavis:
You got to show off your stuff, but it really doesn't fit the challenge.

Before Football Players Wore Armour
by theSaj

Comment by squirrel:
original choice of team sport!

Before Football Players Wore Armour
by theSaj

Comment by rmlutgen:
Unique idea! High score for originality. Not much to improve, except the two knives in the back are tilted slightly the left. Great photo!

Before Football Players Wore Armour
by theSaj

Comment by Go-KL:
Stretches the sports thing too far, this would have nothing to do with sport if the title didn't help it there.

Before Football Players Wore Armour
by theSaj

Comment by wkoffel:
a bit of a stretch on the theme here, eh? :)

Why can't we feed the animals?
by theSaj

Comment by theSaj:
To all the people who don't think it fit the challenge...

"Feeding the animals" is a bad habit...*sheesh*...I figured viewers would figure that out...next time I know it's better to simply put it BLUNTLY in the title.

We were in Balboa Park and every animal we came across my mom insisted on feeding. Sadly, i think a lot of people knocked me for this...

Live and learn...sadly, my latest submission didn't get finished until 10 minutes too late for submission into three...so being so annoyed at these stupid time restraints that keep killing my best photo submissions. I just submitted it to sports. Technically, it IS a sport....

SWORDFIGHTING!!!

Yeah, okay, so it's not a modern sport but it was quite the popular team sport a few centuries back....

Message edited by author 2004-05-31 17:07:19.

Why can't we feed the animals?
by theSaj

Comment by _nightowl_:
would have been interesting with other cropping (vertical)

Sunny Jim Cave
by theSaj

Comment by theSaj:
The sky was a touch hazy this day...sadly, such is not something in my control.

"Hey God....clear the haze will ya...I'm trying to take a bloody photo!"

(just didn't seem like it would work)

This is my second submission. I am actually happy with the result. At first I was disappointed with a 5. But then i realized that the top photos are usually only in the sevens. Um...I would really like to know why two people gave it only a "2". The threes I can grin and swallow. But I do not feel that the two 2's were warranted. Probably didn't effect the score too much.

I had another that I would have loved to submit but was one day outside the entrance. I swear, it is so neat I might submit it anyways for a contest and who cares if it gets DQ'd. It was a trick photo. Incorporating a palm tree and a lighted chandelier. I managed to make it look like the chandelier is floating like a crown upon the palm tree in broad daylight.

I really wished DP had like a 3 month "Best Of" or even the ability for a person to list their 10 personal best and have people rate them. That would be COOL!