First Impression - the most important one: Intesting and totally out of the box take on a portrait .. no person .. no animal ... a portrait of a ball.
Composition: This is fine for this pic.
Subject: Doesn't seem to be the thing for this challenge at all ....
Technical (Colour and light): Have you applied some vignetting .. or somethng like that at the bottom and slightly up the sides or is this natural .... the sky being blown is not helping and the sharpening artifacts on the goal posts don't help either. The blue of the ball is great.
To grow its vote?: Try putting in something like a person .. I think that may have helped .. or even an animal.
Summary: Interesting study ... keep up the good work I know that you do.
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I really don't like the background in the shot, the sky is blown out. everything is a bit too blurry and oversaturated. However the foreground is good, the ball looks very nice and the grass has an interesting look to it.
Would rock if you showed some players running towards it with their foot cocked. Otherwise I think it's a little uninteresting and a bit overprocessed. Also - that building or whatever behind the goal net hurts the pic and the ball is not a typical soccer ball (black/white).
Compositionally and conceptually strong. Seems overprocessed to me in general and especially in the BG/sky. I liked the picture quite a lot actually, but not for this challenge.
The greens look a little too saturated (especially in back with the haloing) and I don't like the blown-out sky. But otherwise, I like the strong foreground elements and composition.
Hi,
I did not vote on this challenge but here is what I see in your picture outside of the challenge.
If you were looking for an abandoned feel it is portrayed well in this shot. With the tall grass and dark fringe's around the bottom of the picture gives me a feel that the soccer ball is left outside, the kids are tired of playing with it and have gone on to do something else leaving the ball to deal with the elements. Emotionally it has a depressing, lonely, abandoned, and an overtaken feel to it.
The photograph technically is good. The blown sky is distracting making me think a gradulant layer may have helped.
I hope this helps and is the kind of comment you were looking for. Remember all my comments are my opinion and everyone see photographs differently.
-SDW
Sorry, but I do not find this to be a portrait. This is a nice still life shot in it's environment, but in photography I think most expect to see a person or animal when it comes to portraits. At least that is how my thinking is.
Wooo! Soccer time! I don't think you needed to burn the bottom of the picture. I'm not sure what happened with the background, but it seems a but over saturated
There's a weird color banding or something where the sky meets the trees. I like the composition but the colors and artifacting is a little offputting.
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