Nice green grass, and great angle, witht he ball coming up just above the horizon. Great advertisement! Nice attention to detail, choosing the number '1' ball. My only complaint is the intrusion by the hill above the horizontal line on the left.
Nice. I'd have made it a vertical, as the right side in particular doesn't add much to the image and you'd have left some space for copy (if this were a real product shot for an add). Would have given the ball somewhere to go, as well. Just a guess, but was the original underexposed? There's a grayish cast overall , and lots of noise in the blue channel. Almost as if you'd tried to increase the brightness but couldn't go far enough because of the increased noise. If this isn't the case, I'd try shifting the white level to 250 or 245, and maybe raising the gamma to 1.10. Still quite good.
Love your shot. It looks very sharp. The only flaws I see are a slight red color cast on the top half of the ball (hope it is not just my monitor, it is color profiled though) and a loss of detail due to blown highlights in the upper right quadrant. I understand the difficulty of exposing in bright sunlight. Maybe the exposure would have been easier earlier in the morning or at the end of the day? Fine effort. I rate this photo high.
I really enjoy this pic. The contrast of grass and sky, along with the excellent detail of the golf ball really catch my eye. It makes me want to buy a sleeve of them and I don't even golf. Well done!
Hmm... the composition of this photo is not very interesting. It would only catch my eye in a magazine or something because of the stark colours. I think having the light from the sun come in from the side, creating that shadow, makes it flatter and less interesting somehow, because the shading on the ball cuts it in some fairly straight lines. Having the light more from the front would give it nicer contours.
would have been cool if you had gotten a little bit lower to put the ball closer to the horizon. also that tree thing upper left is distracting. A fill flash would have filled in your shadow and more evenly lit your ball.
I can totally see this photo being in a magazine... They'd probably edit out the trees on the horizon in the upper left though :) This gets my top vote...
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