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Comment by fencekicker:
Nice job on this. The thumb is a bit distracting; a slightly different camera angle or hand position might have been better. Nice though. :)

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Comment by DrAchoo:
You have the opportunity to learn a lot on this one because there was a shot with the exact same idea which scored much better (look at 5th). What makes the difference? A few things.

1) Distracting elements. Notice that anmldoc's shot has nothing to distract in the background. It is actually quite sparse with the sky dominating the canvas. Your shot has the bright red boat in the background (the color makes our eye not sure which boat you really wanted as the subject) as well as the trees which have a ton of little detail (which unfortunately gets pretty obliterated at 640 pixels).

2) Lighting. Actually you didn't do too bad a job, but you can see how your lighting is harsher than anmldoc's. The bright sand dominates more of the canvas. I can see by the shadows you didn't shoot at midday, so that's good. I think perhaps you oversharped the picture (although you didn't mention that in your notes).

anyway, really take a look at your's vs. the 5th place entry. I think you can take quite a bit away. Good luck with future entries.

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Comment by Gixer:
Great Shot! I can see this hanging in my local pool hall.

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Comment by violinist123:
Love the shot. Maybe increase perspective effect by pushing target balls back some so there is space between them and cue ball?

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Comment by mecfcosta:
I'd give a lot more contrast in this picture

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Comment by scarbrd:
A bit washed out, I like the angle, just needs more contrast.

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Comment by whitewolf:
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Comment by rinac:
Oh no... what happened to the contrast? Great idea though :)

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Comment by jfwolpert:
needs more contrast, too flat

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Comment by wetland:
Great idea...but lighting is pretty bland.