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01/19/2006 09:16:57 AM · #1 |
like to shoot a bit of sports, but trying to produce images with a little creativity. would be interested in any comments on this...
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01/19/2006 08:48:47 PM · #2 |
| no-one has any comment to make? is it THAT bad? ...lol... |
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01/19/2006 08:54:59 PM · #3 |
| I'm not into b/w sports images...its a great shot! I would like to see the color...Do you have the color shot? |
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01/19/2006 08:57:17 PM · #4 |
| Pretty good, but the type of picture doesn't lend itself to selective desaturation. |
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01/19/2006 09:08:11 PM · #5 |
| thanx for comments. don't have the colour image on this pc, but the reason i started playing with the desat was that the water on this day was a muddy orange/brown. tanned skin and orange highlights on the boat just looked crap against the water. |
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01/19/2006 09:08:55 PM · #6 |
I too would like to see the original colour image. If the water were a strong blue or green then the contracting red helmet would look great. You could always saturate the colours up a little too.
edit. Ignore my comments.
Message edited by author 2006-01-19 21:09:53. |
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01/19/2006 09:11:40 PM · #7 |
There a specific 'rules of thumb' in sports photography, and this image is just ok.
I like to see the face of the athlete. It gives rise to more story telling, how the athlete feels, their emotions, their agony, theri stress level, theri victory. Give me a reason to view your picture. I don't want to see the top of the head, or the helmet.
And, selective desaturation doesn't play well in any sports photography unless you plan on selling the prints to a general audience as opposed to publisher, or editor.
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01/20/2006 12:31:59 AM · #8 |
I like it.
Although, some advice I've heard for shooting sports is to always give the athlete/subject room to move in the frame, in the direction they're going. Rule of thirds still works sometimes, as long as they are facing the negative space.
If the color of the water is unpleasant, maybe you could do a color shift to get an artful portrayal of it, instead of a desat?
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01/20/2006 01:16:53 AM · #9 |
The image has in its favor that it is sharp and crisp, it is strongly (if oddly) composed, and that the turbulence of the water is cleanly captured.
It has running against it that the selective desat works against the action concept, that the sportboater looks trapped and static (partly pose, partly compositional) and most of all that you cannot see his face.
I, too, would like to see the unaltered color original; I'd take a crack at it in Photoshop.
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