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Published: 2016-06-06 05:25:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 590; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 0
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I was really looking to capture the ball going through the ring with the sun making a silhouette; the tangle of hands, seemingly held up in supplication, was a bonus, but it makes the image!Processing (Lightroom): Straightened (vertically); increased the contrast (to defeat a bit of the flare); reduced the "highlights", which both made the sun "pop" a bit more, and gave some more detail in the clouds; cropped to 5x7 (I think). Β No change to white balance, believe it or not.
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Great image - the angle making for the silhouette is great.
Was this in a 'live game', or set up for the shot? - just curious on your shooting process.
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Thank you for your kind comments - I'm a lover of silhouettes, shadows and reflections!
And it was a live game - my daughter's team. Β I saw the strong sunlight, and the ball against it, and thought I might be lucky enough to get a few "sequence" images. Β I rarely, if ever, get to "set up" shots - have to keep my eyes open, and hope I can get a decent image!
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I to am a 'finder' of images, rather than a 'maker'.
Good forethought.
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It is very satisfying to "find" images rather than make them, isn't it? The thrill of capturing either exactly what you saw, or something entirely unexpected, cannot be measured!
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Indeed. For me, it is a little bit the sense of 'natural' vs 'artificial'.
Other folk express their creativity by, well creating - making something. Sometimes I turn my hand to that, but that is tending more to the moving picture space.
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That makes lots of sense to me - we seem to think in a very similar way. Β I agree that the creating does really lend itself better to moving pictures - a kind of strict choreography that, when it's all put together, looks effortless and natural. Β It's many, many years since I had anything to do with movie making, and I confess that I find the process of slicing the creative image into small pieces in order to be able to assemble them again into something beautiful extremely difficult. I admire those who do not see it like labour, but rather love the entire process.
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It certainly is a chunk of work, but I generally do enjoy the process (geeky nature showing there). It is important to have something 'worth' making - family memories are on that list, but random narrative stuff not. And having a team you can work with is important. One takes opportunities as they comes - essentially, as they are found!
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