Naked

[A.Rotshtein]

Thank you for any comments in advance

AR

 

[captain-spanky]

round picture... square format...
works well! quite interesting

 

[Lyanna]

My first reaction was

"Is that blood?? :shock: "

But I guess it is a "naked" tennisball right? Damn, you had me confused there with that title. I think it's a little creepy

 

[graigdavis]

Baseball. Talk about your all time let downs. Expect a naked woman and you get a freaky lookin baseball.

 

[DanielK]

Baseball. Talk about your all time let downs. Expect a naked woman and you get a freaky lookin baseball.

Hehe.

Still, I do like this picture. I'm not big on the lavender background, but that's only because I don't care for the color in general. It does work and I can't really think of what color I would replace it with.

Nice job. I bet it looks great framed.


Daniel

 

[bogleric]

the lavender background is quite blah and for a 3-d object this picture is exceptionally 2-d. a little disappointing.

Nice try.

 

[DanielK]

the lavender background is quite blah and for a 3-d object this picture is exceptionally 2-d. a little disappointing.

Nice try.

I don't know about that. "disappointing" seems a little harsh outside of the Critique Forum.

In order to be somewhat constructive, I'd offer that if the background were textured in some recognisable way, be it a familiar repeated pattern like the MLB logo or something like that, or perhaps the stripes of a baseball jersey, then you could exploit the DOF and make the patterned background blurry and highten the impression of the picture being 3D.

I wouldn't go so far as to say I was disappointed in the picture, though. I still think it's interesting and keeps my eye.


Daniel

 

[markc]

I personally think it's more of a 2D image rather than 3D. Some sidelighting would make the "veins" pop out more, which I think might be rather interesting, but you might lose the "fleshy" look of the ball.

Cool shot!

 

[DanielK]

...the "fleshy" look...

I agree. That's what I love about the picture more than anything else. It has an almost organic feel to it. It's very raw. Like an autopsy photo or something.


Daniel

 

[terri]

This image is about texture for me; you can almost feel the ruggedness of the shell. Looks great! I don't mind the background color at all; if I had to nitpick here, it would be the lighting. There is the suggestion of a hot spot in the middle, and it's off just enough to cast a shadow along the bottom.

But like I said, that's a nitpick. Nice!

 

[DanielK]

I don't mind the background color at all

Yeah. I probably shouldn't have said anything. The color thing is more of a personal dislike of lavender than anything else. That should probably be disregarded..


Daniel