Attack of the Pool Balls

Nice Photo...

I love what you did with the light!

It's amazing how many people on here are using the Sony DSC-F717 camera. I know it's high res and has a ziess lens, but I have never known anybody with one. Most people I know use slr cameras to do this caliber of work.

Very good idea!!!!

Original.

This is simply awesome!

exellent exellent creativity...

Fantastic

Hi Todd - this is ingenious and so creative.The light on this side of the balls makes this a cracker of a shot!

Everything is in the perfect place, the pool balls, the light, the shadows, and great color too.

 

A winner.

Good and fresh idea. Interesting object. Nicely composed. Good play with shadow. Might be better without a horizontal shadow lines

Very imaginative, with great use of colour and excellent lighting. Pity about the dark shadow running horizontally across the image.

What a great concept indeed! I love the mixture of colors and pattern. I have to agree with the above statement about the horizontal shadow however and how the light falls off a bit sharply from one end to the other. One way to solve the lighting problem would be to use a powerful strobe placed futher away so that light fall off is not as great throughout the picture. Remember the Inverse Square Law of light fall off. How about an encore?! :-) [added comment]: Ah, now I see after looking at your other pool table shots, that the shadows are simulating a window frame, as if the balls were being lit by natural light coming through a window. I think in this case because of the sharply defined shadows that it looks like it was shot in a studio. In order for it to look like natural window light, the shadows would have to be be considerably softer. A high powered strobe through a large softbox would work to create the effect that I think your going after. Then the window frame would make more sense, however if you desire to retain the sharp shadow patterns, then I would suggest removing the window frame shadow as it competes with the balls. Encore, encore!! :-)

I know, I don't like it so much myself either. But there was little I could do about it since my light source was direct sunlight through a window which created that shadow where the two windows meet. I used some white foam core to reflect some light back into the frame (at the bottom) you can even see my hand in the 2 balls reflection. I liked the shot, but I think it can be better, maybe I'll try again. Thanks for all the nice ratings and comments.

 

Todd

Todd - I'm amazed that this is direct sunlight. I guess I was expecting window light to be much softer than this. I stand corrected. Live and learn. Wow!

This was taken late in the day so that added to the "harshness" of the light, as the sun was low casting dramatic shadows. Aslo there were no blinds of any kind on the window to diffuse the light either.

 

Todd

Todd, thanks for the explanation!

Effective use of shadows. Well done.

Consider these comments helpful or rubbish as you see fit.

Just fantastic!

Todd - I'm amazed that this is direct sunlight. I guess I was expecting window light to be much softer than this. I stand corrected. Live and learn. Wow!

 

 

Very original. Nicely placed balls, I see you had planned it out so that the shadows wouldnt overlap or engulf each other.

I love this, very creative.

One point in order to show an excellent Job is in this way, thw form that you still find each one of this great pictures. I see a great concept and extremely care with shadow areas, fine idea about composition and over all, I guess you are looking for a style , I`m sure you`ll find it because your work is fantastic and different from many others I had seen. I like very much the combinate colors and well done with light studio. Realy my best regards.

That's simply great. Never seen this before. The lighting conditions are very tricky, excellent exposure, neat idea, perfect execution. My hat's off! Alin