A stainless steel sculpture of Detroit Tiger great Hal Newhouser located at Comerica Park.
This shot is pretty much direct from the camera with a bit of cropping and a touch of USM after resizing. Taken handheld with the Canon 70-200/f2.8L IS at 120mm.
This was a challenging shot to compose because of all the advertising around the scoreboard -- that is the reason why 1) you are only seeing a part of the sculpture and 2) the cropping is so tight on the left and right. (If you look under the left armpit, you can see a bit of the big red 'Budweiser' sign that is underneath the 64' x 34' scoreboard.)
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all: Thanks for all the comments! It is pretty exciting to win my first ribbon.
marbo: good job on noticing the cobweb! There are actually two of them, one above and one below his leg, both attached to his foot. I didn't notice them while looking through the viewfinder -- it wasn't until I got home and downloaded the pics that they showed up. I wouldn't have been able to do anything about them anyway, since the sculptures are on pedestals, well out of reach.
kiwiness: the 70-200/2.8L IS is my favorite lens by far!
I was expecting something from Yankee Stadium. Well-lit without glare; I might have laft it a little darker, or get the background darker so it would look more obviously like a night game, and isolate the figure.
My favorite of the challenge. Excellent composition, the scoreboard in the background makes this shot work. Very sharp and clean, you can even see a cobweb under the leg. Deserves a ribbon 10 +
Nice crop. Perfect use of DoF, retians the scoreboard as an element of the photo, not totally blurrred, but emphasizes the subject. Diffuse light is very nice. A sunny day would have been bad news for this shot!
I love this shot. As a baseball fan it coverst both the past and present. I love the detail, and I love the subject. Coming in spikes high...The only two things that get me are the left foot (because of the light sky, the spikes dissapear) and it feels slightly sharp. 9
Outstanding clarity! Contrast is good except for left edge behind scoreboard. Perhaps an evening photo or an angle 30degrees west would have perfected this.
Great DOF. I love the composition on this. I think I'ld like a tad more space to the left of the shoe but not sure you could do that without doing more harm than good (making the head to close to the right edge for example).
I wonder if you took a step to the left, to get only the score board in the background how it would be. I think you would have a much stronger image, perhaps try cropping out the 'lines' on the sides?
Beautiful composition. I like the way you crop this one. Sometimes cropping out the whole statue takes away from the image, but I think this one works. The facial expression is captured and it shows him facing where he is going to pitch to. Great depth of field. Really bring the statue alive.
I think the background really makes this image. The monument is great, dont get me wrong here, and the crop, which doesnt seem to work at first, actually doesnt really do anything too negative to the image, but coupled with the background it really tells a story.
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