Soccer Balls in Net
There’s an old adage in sales “When the customer gives you the order stop talking and leave.” In other words when you have what you want don’t say any more you might screw up the deal. The same thing is true of photography. When you have what you want in the view finder you don’t show anymore, release the shutter or you might show too much. Keep it simple.
This photograph is an example of simplicity. The photographer has only shown us a portion of the six soccer balls and nothing more. There is no background; we don’t even see an entire sphere. But we know what we are looking at without being given any more information. By only showing us this limited view he leaves it up to our imagination what else is going on around the scene. We have to imagine how many more balls there are; two, ten, a hundred, who knows?
The shot is clean, with nice focus and lots of color. The fact that the light is mid day sun does not take anything away from this image. Note the reflections of red light on the left hand white ball which has a mat finish and the reflections on the right hand gray ball which has a gloss surface.
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March 22nd, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Photography is all about fun, and a swap meet can be loads of fun, These socker balls were in a large net for sale. I loved the balls, their color, and the design of the net in relation to the balls. Persto: here is the fun swap meet shot.