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I like supporting the billiard community with photos.

Can anyone name the players in the photos?
 
I'm sure any 14.1 connoisseur would name Eberle, Archer, Ortmann, Cohen, Hohmann, Ouschan, van den Berg, Fulcher. Did I forget Immonen?
 
Edward Hopper?

Hi,
It seems like you're invoking Edward Hopper in some of your manipulations. A few of these remind me of Hopper's work. Good eye! I like your framing.... and layering of players and on lookers.
As a photographer... I'll vote for the straight photograph, no manipulation.
I'm a black & white film guy, I guess you could say.
That's it>>> manipulate them into B&W!
Thanks for uploading these.

Davio
 
Can you please explain why all this crap is necessary? I mean, what did you actually use to take these? How do you define your 18th century camera - cuz I'm pretty sure these were not done with powder-flash, a bellows camera with 8x10 sheet film. I'm sorry, but as a photograher, these are all offensive.

I'm not opposed to digital manipulations (hell my partner made a living doing it for years), but good christ, those filters are for children to entertain themselves. The line-drawing shots would be excellent, if they were actually drawn, by hand, but they're not, so.... yeah.

I would love to see all of the original shots... grain, blur, and all because at least then, there's a chance for ambiance to come through; these just look like they're trying to hide something.. it's like putting $20 makeup on a dead pig.

I do really appreciate the effort you put in to taking the pics and uploading them, I really do... but I was hoping to actually be able to get something from the photos... and these just don't do it.
 
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stljohnny said:
Can you please explain why all this crap is necessary? I mean, what did you actually use to take these? How do you define your 18th century camera - cuz I'm pretty sure these were not done with powder-flash, a bellows camera with 8x10 sheet film. I'm sorry, but as a photograher, these are all offensive.

I'm not opposed to digital manipulations (hell my partner made a living doing it for years), but good christ, those filters are for children to entertain themselves. The line-drawing shots would be excellent, if they were actually drawn, by hand, but they're not, so.... yeah.

I would love to see all of the original shots... grain, blur, and all because at least then, there's a chance for ambiance to come through; these just look like they're trying to hide something.. it's like putting $20 makeup on a dead pig.

I do really appreciate the effort you put in to taking the pics and uploading them, I really do... but I was hoping to actually be able to get something from the photos... and these just don't do it.

Me and my partner's work can be found here: Steel Veils - and it is NOT SAFE FOR WORK, just fyi.
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I like 18th century to 19th century art movements in Europe and early American art movements, billiards and photography. The Worlds 14.1 was a great opportunity for me to combine those interests. Oddly enough most of the computer functions are based on math computations, which nobody thought useful for decades. The original shots are so grainy, nothing was focused and the lighting was horrible. I am using an amateur SLR camera.

In the 21st century the camera and the computer function as an illustration tool guided by an artist.
 
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Thanks, these are so much better, in my opinion. Sure, a little out of focus and blurry, but the movement that's captured is natural - not faked - and it still works because it's a familiar sort of movement we, as pool players, are used to seeing. (well, maybe not the sitting still JA one, but the others... sure)

It's unfortunate the lighting was terrible, as it usually is for pool halls. Keep upping that ISO, and widening that aperture. You'll get it ;)

Also - some of the newer consumer SLRs look pretty damn good at 1600 ISO these days. A few levels up from that and you can get a nice "clean" 3200 and perhaps even a 6400 if you wanna spend a little more. But honestly, if you're going to spend money - invest in glass long before you invest the body.
 
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