Photo: Basketball Hoop

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Looking up through a basketball hoop.

I tried thinking of a more abstract title, but nothing is better than “Basketball Hoop.” Sure, if this were a plain, ordinary photo of a basketball hoop, a creative title might add some jazz, but when the photo is creative on it’s own, a mundane title is a good contrast. A creative title would work too, but a mundane title for a creative piece is far better than an unfitting creative title.

I took this at F2.5, so even parts of the netting are out of focus. The background was a dull blue sky, but it works quite well when converted to black and white. Then, I added lots of contrast. No vignetting, because it would feel contrived on this image.

Someone somewhere has done a photo just like this, but I haven’t.

Canon Rebel XTi [2], EF 50mm 1:1.4 [3], 1/200, F2.5, 50mm, ISO100, 2008-09-13T07:19:31-04, 20080913-111931rxt

Download a perfected high-res JPEG [4] or download the source image [5] (Canon Rebel XTi RAW file).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License [6]. Credit me as Richard X. Thripp, and link back to richardxthripp.thripp.com [7] or rxthripp.com [8]. Thanks!