OPEN CHALLENGE 25 • ISOLATED
Soccer match | Alopa
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 Alopa 
 (28/12/2009 @ 20:05:19 EST)
I apologize for the delay in answering...Thanks Martin, Ron, Jill, JP and Al for your kind comments!.
 mschf 
 (23/12/2009 @ 15:05:21 EST)
This one's excellent and I love how the colors here play with one another. Looks a bit like a street football court near the first apartment I had in Lima Peru, there were some great matches taking place there. Great job, amigo!
 ronb 
 (20/12/2009 @ 12:00:08 EST)
Excellent shot Daniel - great composition & I love the muted colouring.
 (19/12/2009 @ 00:06:54 EST)
Daniel, hats off to you, you really 'think' about your shots...the effort certainly pays off.
 (18/12/2009 @ 10:36:01 EST)
This is excellent, Danial. Like it a lot.
 Alopa 
 (18/12/2009 @ 08:19:51 EST)
Many thanks John for the kind compliments. This game is called "soccer 5" as any team has 5 players. The floor is an artificial plastic grass that requires a special type of shoes, like the guy is wearing. The colors works well here because they are complementary each other. I mean that if you put this image in PS and invert the image (Ctrl+I) you´ll notice that the T-shirt takes the chair color and vice versa, the green floor takes the dark wall color and vice versa, and the dark floor takes the green wall color and vice versa (and white replaces black and vice versa). I often look for this situations when shooting because complementary colors looks good for my taste.
 jrdu 
 (18/12/2009 @ 07:21:13 EST)
Daniel, this works ok for the topic even though the guy is isolating himself. His back to the camera and his face to an empty street soccer pitch, gives the impression that he's in a funk, and like Brent, I can appreciate that sport can sometimes leave you in a funk. I'm confused because he seems to be wearing studs, which would be out of place on that pitch, but lots of things have happened in the soccer world since I played. The colours work well for you here, also helping to isolate the guy. This speaks to my gut, which is a quality of your work that I always admire.
 Alopa 
 (18/12/2009 @ 06:18:30 EST)
Thanks Ernest and Rod for the kind comments. Thanks Brent and funny story!.
Thanks JP and Doug for convincing me to crop it!. When I made the PP I was thinking about cropping it, but I was in doubt because of noise and image quality. And I didn´t take the right decision.
 (18/12/2009 @ 03:29:53 EST)
Wonderful image again. colours are perfect. Hope he is not waiting for the world cup :-)
 BrentS 
 (18/12/2009 @ 01:38:58 EST)
Excellent capture Daniel. I felt like doing just as he is sometimes back when I was a goal keeper and let a ball get by me I thought I should have stopped.
 rodbam 
 (17/12/2009 @ 23:59:00 EST)
Excellent catch Daniel, I supposed you used this skinny type crop to make the bloke look more isolated. I would have a play with it as the other two suggests & see what you like best.
 (17/12/2009 @ 23:27:46 EST)
This is a ripper of a shot and the content is perfect but too much of it for me. A standard aspect ratio would still keep your subject isolated while drawing more attention to him.
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