It's a fake! The cue ball is hanging from some fishing line that I have cloned out. I thought about levelling the "horizon" (aka the pool table) but it didn't look right when I did.
Editing Steps: curves
clone out wires and minor blemishes
levels
hue/saturation
resize
noise filter: dust & scratches
usm
blur cue ball
add border
save for web
Post Challenge: I think again it is the post processing that cost me on this. From the comments I managed to give the impression of capturing a real jump shot but the colours etc made the overall impression a bit "blah blah.
Statistics
Place: 99 out of 212 Avg (all users): 5.5301 Avg (commenters): 6.1667 Avg (participants): 5.5139 Avg (non-participants): 5.5405 Views since voting: 1164 Views during voting: 314 Votes: 183 Comments: 11 Favorites: 0
First Impression:
Nice shot! My eye went straight to the cue ball, down to the “13”, “1” and then the cue stick. Vivid colours!
Composition:
Nice lines and colours. Some how the balls look too small compared to the bumper height. I like the crop aspect ratio
Subject:
Meets challenge, even though you created the impression!
Technical:
Nice lighting. Yellow ball has a couple of blown areas. Entire shot is soft . Adding blur to the cue ball works, but the rest of the table and balls could have been sharper. Felt looks flat.
Summary:
You had an excellent idea. The overall soft focus may have hurt you with the voters. In this kind of a shot, I think they expect to see everything “pop” to be sharp.
Hey! That's pretty cool! Haven't seen an image like this here yet, and I've been here a while now. Plenty of pool table shots but not a jump shot. Clever idea. Now...how's it doing I wonder? Exposure and color temp are good for an indoor lighting shot. Have the stopped motion portion taken care of. Only nit is the line of the table against the background makes it look slanted to the right. Might hear about that. Anyway...best of luck to you in the challenge.
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