The shot was one of many from my trip to the ballpark Sat evening. I just liked the way JD Drew was isolated, surrounded by the grass. I had to use a high iso due to it being a night game, and with my cheap zoom, I feel I do lose a little on this.
Photoshop was convert from RAW, crop, curves, selective color (green and red), hue/sat (reduce purple fringing around jersey), reduce noise, unsharp mask, save for web.
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Greetings from the critique club! Good choice of subject for this challenge for a couple of reasons. One - he is by himself. Two - coincidentally enough he is number 7.
For ISO 1600, you handled the noise quite well however if you had an opportunity to shoot at a low ISO I can only imagine how sharp this would have been.
The composition works well and makes good use of negative space.
Colors are rich and nicely saturated without going overboard.
it's kind of cool to notice how the ground gets beat up and trampled where the outfielders tend to line up - the darkness of the green grass really emphasizes the baseball player - the odd uniform number adds to the theme here
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