best of the best - my choice Highjump balet

Excellent shot capturing perfect form and the background is perfectly out of focus, giving just enough detail to let us know where it was taken. Perfect.

This is truly amazing....a beautiful symphony of motion stopped before our eyes.

 

I agree with Marc�s comment on the background being fine and I think is part of its success. It�s reminiscent of old

journal photos with tons of background some of it very colorful, some of it a ununiform texture of patches providing

beautiful contrast to the sharply detailed subject as found in your shot.

 

I love the stop action moment so cleverly captured here. There seems to be a moment here where the athlete has

surrendered to the momentum of her effort�.allowing the jump to take on its course of action now that she has set it

in motion. It�s sort of faith in the sports physics on which her practice relies.

 

Well captured and well deserved POW dudeman!!

 

Bradley

Great bokeh!

Perfect. Stunning. This wonderfully captures the athleticism and grace of this athlete. The closed eyes at the apex of her jump are a nice touch. Great portfolio.

Perfect timing and focus. Great how you captured her expression in this decisive moment.

Sjajna fotka!!Cestitke Damire :)

This is, of course, a great photograph. But it brings up an issue for me that may or may not be relevant to sports photography, and that is

the sense from this photo that there is no movement in the athlete. She is frozen as if a sculpture. Now, this also presents an interesting

dichotomy that adds to the interest of the photo, but it also takes something away from the event that was occurring. As such, it is an

abstraction. I would be interested to see what movement would add or take away from this photo. Regardless, if the image weren't so

striking, I wouldn't be here writing about it.

I do like the composition....but as someone pointed out the background blur looks like it was achieved through photoshop.

The way the blur looks seems artificial and not acheived "in camera".

There appears to be a bit of an outline around the figure in order to blue the background.

Damir, is this infact the case?

It's not a criticism...I just would like to know the technique used to create the photo.

Still an eye-catching photo.

The details show it was taken at 300mm (390mm eff.) at f2.8, so the DoF is quite believable (and it's marked as not manipulated). On a jpeg of this size any masking would have to be really sloppy to be visible, the line you see is a jpeg artifact.

 

The capture of the central figure is, indeed, superb. But after Bill Tate's mention of the red blob, it bothers me more and more. I agree with Pang-Dian Fan that cropping would rob the figure of the visual space that it needs, though. Why not simply mask it off and desaturate the background? It would be possible to remove the distracting intensity of the red and yellow areas while preserving the other, more muted colours.

Thanks for clarifying the blur question.

 

As for the red in the background, I have no problem with it. I think there is too much of a propensity to make pictures "too" flawless. I think some imperfection in a photo is what makes it "real".

Incredible capture.

 

On that note I'm not at all a fan of oddball cropping.

I think this piece is extraordinary. The DOF really makes you focus on the athlete. Look at her muscles!

legendo,. I didn't have a chance to view your portfolio before, but this is superb,. While others need to clone and PS their shots to pass,.. your shot is 7/7 without any need for additional manipulation

Very good capture : power and relaxation at the same time.

Yay a good photo!

My first thoughts upon seeing this picture was ballet. The beautiful placement of the hands say it all.

 

Then I saw the title. Well I guess my thoughts weren't so original.

 

This is a beautiful timed and realized moment. You have captured it perfectly.

What a great shot. I think you have captured the athletes passion perfectly. I can tell that she is giving it her all. If I had to say anything negative, I would say that the background is a bit distracting and does take away from the subject just the tiniest bit. I am impressed at the clarity of the subject itself. She almost looks like she is posing rather than actually doing the deed. Excellent.

From her position just above the bar at this point it would seem not but they do unbelievable things...

Perfect !

simply very nice and good taken...the color are perfect...and good timing

Damir,

this photo is just a full expression of joy, armony and satisfaction, product of a hard work.

Just the right situation, just the right time. Gratulation.

 

 

Spettacolare!!

Well done shot,it's wonderful.