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Challenge: Team Sports Without Players (Basic Editing I)
Camera: Canon PowerShot A60
Location: Baseball diamond
Date: Jun 1, 2004
Aperture: F6.3
ISO: 50
Shutter: 1/1000
Galleries: Sports, Still Life
Date Uploaded: Jun 1, 2004

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Statistics
Place: 35 out of 162
Avg (all users): 5.6262
Avg (commenters): 7.0000
Avg (participants): 5.5495
Avg (non-participants): 5.6577
Views since voting: 928
Votes: 313
Comments: 7
Favorites: 0


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03/23/2006 10:33:59 AM
I like ccraft's comments here. The first thing I saw was the perspective. This seems like a person is looking straight down at it, and that can evoke some response as it mimics a normal human view.

On the other hand, I feel that the picture might be stronger overall if you made an attempt to keep exactly the same field of view of the home plate, but brought your camera down to ground level.

Next, you would probably have to move the ball to an appropriate position, preferably fairly prominent, with sufficient detail in the textures of the well-loved baseball, while maintaining the good use of the negative space of the plate (as mentioned by someone else).

It's a very nice picture.

Oh yeah, and I like how close the crop to the home plate is. :)
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06/09/2004 10:12:57 AM
WTG on your personal best. I liked this photo it was simple yet effective, clear and well focused.

What it lacked for me was the Wow factor so it holds little interest
I scored it a 7 as did 35 others :-)

How to make this photo better... I dunno, cause if I did my scores would be higher too. ;-)
But I might have been inclined to place a dusty footprint on the plate.
or partially in the dirt an on the plate.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/08/2004 09:12:33 PM
good concept. 8
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06/07/2004 05:56:27 PM
I like the fact that the baseball is signed - there's the team without the players :) However, I don't like how close cropped the home plate is...
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06/05/2004 03:30:03 AM
Nice and simple idea, I like the off-centering of the ball and the fact that it has some writings on it, it tells a story that way. Great job...

Good luck...
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06/04/2004 10:55:08 PM
uhm
06/03/2004 02:46:25 PM
Very inventive thought for this challenge. I like that you took the time to think about balance and negative space, as well as effective lighting. Would it have been better if, instead of shooting from over head, you shot from right around the ground-level, maybe looking at the ball out onto the plate? But overall very good. Good luck
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