B67 II

I like this series, but its difficult to choose a favourite, every image seems to evoke quite different emotions and tell different stories. The angles of this are so inviting. the lead in from the RH lower corner seems to interplay with the patterns in the paving and then the upright interlocks with the distant signs. It seems to sing out those words from a film I'm sure was called "Field of Dreams" and the words were "They Will Come"

Compliments!

Alf

Agreed. A creative and well seen series. Each has its own dynamics. What I particularly like here is not only the fluidity of the basketball post and its shadow but the way the long wall in the background recedes. There's an otherworldly quality to the color in all of them, which supports the dimensionality and quirkiness of the shadow work. Good use of contrasting texture of the pavement and the grass and the grass seems to dictate where the color goes. It's a case where the processing seems organic with the content and feel of the photos. Strong compositions throughout, highlighted by effective vignetting.

many thanks for your detailed comments and choosing this one from the series. In fact, I couldn't quite decide whether I prefer this one or "B67" (the first one in the series). With this I had certain doubts whether composition is too 'heavy' towards lower left hand triangle - yet, Fred your comment resolved my doubts.

So, thank you very much.

cheers, Wolfgang

This one, all zigs and zaga. It would take a crooked man to play a crooked game in this crooked (but beautifully balanced) composition.

My favorite of a priory a good series.I like the angles, diagonals and triangles with the "answer" on the BG wall  with another basket... very nice light, shadows,and color palette, but especially your good observation !

many thanks for your comments! @Jack: and thanks that you avoided mentioning that it must have taken a crooked photographer to take such a photo ;-)

cheers, Wolfgang

Very nicely composed indeed. The diagonal composition of main object and shadow is an elegant combination. My favorite in the series.

...  a plenitude of meanings camouflaged in a minimal absence... Hi

Angular, formal beauty out of banality.  The counterpoint of the backboard to the signs over the highway...the receding wall and that odd, odd light.  It takes a good eye to find a composition in a setting like this and make it so striking.

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Fantastic shadow.

Interesting.
I wondered about the series (Light and Shadow) so went there and the ensemble is very striking, more impact from all, than from just one, in my opinion.

That being said, I tried the above image as a B&W, like most of the other images in his series, and I think I prefer that to the color version.

I will say that the color version reminds me, for some reason I can't explain, of some of the 1980s color work of Harry Callahan and also some of Stephen Shore's work.

Wolfgang i am really glad your photo was choosen for PoW. and what an interesting choice. the colours are great the lighting and the subject matter as well, the play of light makes the shot for me. its unusual because more often you would image this spot being very busy.. full of motion life people.. i like the stillness of it all. the end of a perfect day.. the end of all the hussle and bussle.

I'll simply repeat what I said above:

A creative and well seen series. Each has its own dynamics. What I particularly like here is not only the fluidity of the basketball post and its shadow but the way the long wall in the background recedes. There's an otherworldly quality to the color in all of them, which supports the dimensionality and quirkiness of the shadow work. Good use of contrasting texture of the pavement and the grass and the grass seems to dictate where the color goes. It's a case where the processing seems organic with the content and feel of the photos. Strong compositions throughout, highlighted by effective vignetting.

The sky color looks unnatural to me, but I do like that it doesn't interfere with the shot. What I particularly like is the way the highway sign leads our eyes to the hoop and its shadow. I also like the feeling of isolation the shot conveys. It takes me back many years to the court near my childhood home where I would occasionally find myself shooting hoops alone, but rather than feeling lonely, I felt a great sense of tranquility and interconnectivity with my surroundings. This shot makes me feel similarly.

In comment to JDM, I do like some of the b&w in his folder, but think this one works well in color because the colors are very subtle and don't distract the viewer from the primary elements in the frame, though again, I do find the unnatural color of the sky a bit 'nuclear-holocaustish.'

Nice polaroid toned processing. It maximizes the effect of geometry, angles and contrast of the photo. I like it.
Regards,
Mário

Indeed, the wall is crucial to the impact of this image. It helps us to imagine a basketball game going on forever.

The sky does look unnatural but more so of film photography, so to me this has a retro feel.
I like how our eyes are pushed in so many directions, this shot has movement and a lot of it.
We have the highway in the back, silhouetted jetting our eyes to the back of the print. Then we see the interstate signs pointing to the hoop, could you have given our eye any more direction? Of course the shadow is done well, falling at our feet to then work our way back up the print.
Movement, a lot of movement.

Tony B

Hi *,
been too busy with other stuff last week, so I only now realized that my photo was chosen for the PoW forum - many thanks to the Elves! And: many thanks for your comments and thoughts - they reflect pretty much my own ideas with this photo. It was a newly set up (and not yet complete) playground - therefore it still had this atmosphere of remoteness amd loneliness that Bill mentioned.
cheers, Wolfgang

Wolfgang

Iwas as well busy with the 5th exhibition in the last 6 months. so I 'm a bit late, but better late than not at all...

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I like the strong light and elongated shadow. but what I like especially is the BG that is corresponding real nicelly to the basket ball's lines and angles .The different hue' s of greens that are affecting the basket ball, and the light FG .that is of the same "family" of earth color and on the same time different. nice composition as well as the file many beautifull compositions.

 

Congratuation ,Wolfgang!

Wolfgang (sorry for the typo ) should be Congratulation !