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. :) |