I took a bunch of pictures of the pool table with my roommate breaking the balls. Then took it into photoshop, converted to grayscale and then to tritone, added an unsharp mask and minimal levels.
Post-Challenge:
I completely agree with everyone about the stuff in the background. I played with a bunch of different crops, and this is the best one I came up with. Unfortunately, the challenge was basic editing, so I couldn't clone anything out.
Also, the eight-ball in the middle just happened to stay still as a result of my roommate's break, nothing to do with me ;-) Here's a version with editing and in color:
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Pretty amazing idea and image - I just wish you had taken the time to align the horizontals - table edges - with the image frame. I would also have cropped a whole lot tighter to exclude the tv and pictures on the wall ... maybe even most of the body and just left in from hip down?
I really like the stationary 8 ball in the eye of the storm. Shame about some of the distracting half-objects in the background (especially the reflection in the corner of the picture).
if this was at your hose, you could have improved the area by taking that picture off the wall. then you could crop a lot closer to the player and not have so much room behind him. it's not really on the table as such but with such a risky shot, i totally understand..
very very very cool idea... love it, i wish it were in color though, and all the balls were moving with a blur of their color behind them... that would be cool too...
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