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Challenge: Sports II (Basic Editing III)
Collection: Family
Camera: Sony DSC-F707
Location: Canton, NC
Date: Jul 9, 2005
Aperture: na
ISO: na
Shutter: na
Galleries: Family, Sports
Date Uploaded: Jul 12, 2005

 I promise no more sub 5 entries after this. It's sad, I guess. I'm having a lot of fun taking pictures and my scores are tanking. Oh well.

My son has been begging for a tennis racket, so we gave in and got him one. Now he has a racket to add to his sports collection of leather baseball glove, aluminum bat, batting gloves, golf clubs and bag, golf glove, footballs, football uniform, soccer balls, and gosh only knows what else. Oh, he's 3 1/2! hte scary thing is that he is pretty good at it.

Taken at dusk. Used a flash to try adn eliminate the background. Slight curves adjustment to [hopefully] get rid of the mountain ridge that was barely visible, and lighten my son up.

I like how the tennis ball is just "there."

oh yea, it is cropped from the original

Statistics
Place: 167 out of 296
Avg (all users): 4.9072
Avg (commenters): 6.7143
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Views since voting: 958
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Votes: 345
Comments: 8
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
 07/20/2005 07:03:45 PM
I really love this shot and I'm sorry to hear that you will stop having fun in order to get higher scores. It's one of the hazards of a competetive site, though - in the end we have to do what pleases ourselves. If the competetive urge trumps serendipity and spontaneity, that's what we need to do. I don't know if this makes any sense, I'm working on my second martini.;)
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Konica Minolta DiMAGE Z3
 07/19/2005 05:37:45 AM
Great shot! Perfect frozen action!
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 07/19/2005 12:36:51 AM
aahh thta is so cute!! great shot...(10) ;-)
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM
 07/16/2005 04:20:04 PM
Haha, what a funny picture! We've all seen this haven't we? Hehe, love it.
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Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0 L IS
 07/16/2005 09:02:11 AM
I hope he got out of the way before the ball zonked him on the head...;-) I like the black background here. Nice work.
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Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L IS USM
 07/14/2005 06:08:30 AM
He looks like oby won from star wars floating a balll above his head. good composition exposure looks really good and the focus is great. Nice shot
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Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 USM
 07/13/2005 07:51:08 PM
Absolutely charming. I love the sense of humor in this picture.
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Nikon Coolpix 990
 07/13/2005 03:35:05 PM
Nice action, perhaps a slower shutter speed to give a bit of movement on the ball/racket. The dark background distracting.
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