This was a lucky chance shot. After a week of no sun or no time, Sunday night around 8PM I found htis guy playing basketball. I took about 30 shots as the sun set but when I took this one I knew I was done. There are bushes and I could have cropped it differently, but it lost some of its charm for me.
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After the challenge:
I want to thank everyone for their comments - much appreciated!
As for the tilt: The net and support and man are all perfectly level (horizontally or vertically) it is the sky and the tree line that slant. If I had rotated so the sky or trees were level the hoop would have been way off. :)
This was kind of a test of monitors. If your monitor is calibrated correctly, you should be able to see his feet just barely at the bottom. You should also see the top bar of a fence on your right.
I honestly tried to crop the image more on the left to get rid of some of the tree and to pull the image off center. But something got lost when I did that. Maybe it is because I am claustrophobic. :) I also tried cloning out the tree on the right. That too did not work for me. I feel the trees restrain the image. Does that make sense? Now I am looking for a basketball hoop with no trees and a western view...
Thanks again!
For those of you interested, I hve posted my RAW image and my TIFF image in my portfolio.
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An impressive capture with great subject matter and whose title is so closely related. The sunset is well treated to exploit the good qualities of the silhoutte. Certainly, a great wall hanger. Bump.
Colors are impressive but the cropping is a little off, wish you had equally cut of part of the tree on the left to match the right one. Image is also tilted.
Great motion carture. This is a tough shot to get i would imagine. Silhouettes are tricky enough but a stop motion one. Those are a little toughter. Great color, crisp outlines, and an enjoyable shot to look at. I would like to have seen a little more of the jumper though He is such a key element to the shot yet he is mostly hidden by the background. So please retake this and tell the ball player to jump higher next time : ) Great shot. very nicely done.
Very cool. Takes me back to college. Did you ever try a crop removing the right 1/3 and the top 1/3 of the image. I think that would look good too. Nice shot
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