Pool anyone - 50mm 1.8 photos

[PiroStitch]

Hi everyone,

Some photos of friends playing pool at a pool hall (instead of playing tennis ) photographed last night using a 50mm 1.8 Series E lens (full manual, no metering )

Some colour balancing had to be adjusted as everyone was looking a bit pale under the fluorescent lighting.

Pot me first!


I'm all alone. There's no one here beside me.








As always, all advice will be greatly appreciated.

Cheerio,

Wayne

[Matt. K]

Nice shots! Difficult to get creative with a pool table.

[marcus]

Fav shot.....I'm all alone. Love that blue ball and the DOF table in the B/G.

[darb]

nice work ... at first i thought they were a little dark, but then i realised that it actually really works ... as someone said to me a long time ago " dont be afraid of the dark "

a pool shot of mine i did a while back you might like ;

[PiroStitch]

Thanks for the encouragement

nice work ... at first i thought they were a little dark, but then i realised that it actually really works ... as someone said to me a long time ago " dont be afraid of the dark "

a pool shot of mine i did a while back you might like ;

I tried a few other shots where i had the shutter open for about a second, but with no tripod and doing my best to steady myself on a stool, they didn't turn out so well. I was experimenting to see if I could photograph the path of the balls.

Yeh I thought they were dark at first as well, but it was the atmosphere of the place that I wanted to capture the most. Pool alleys/halls are usually quite dark in terms of ambient lighting. The only main lights come from the fluoros above the tables I like this type of effect a lot as it helps draw the attention to the people or the balls, depending on what is being captured.

Cheers,

Wayne

[ozimax]

Very nice stuff Piro, like them a lot, the green felt and coloured balls make for some spectacular colouring, Max

[leek]

Nice shots Pirostitch... but I think you'll find that's actually Snooker that they are playing...
Pool only has balls of 2 colours / patterns & a black.
Snooker has 15 reds, 1 black, 1 pink, 1 blue, 1 brown, 1 green & 1 yellow balls...

[sirhc55]

Piro - you have captured in your shots a beautiful feeling of dark, smokey rooms, where snooker and billiards are played - excellent

[Killakoala]

They're great mate. Nice composition, great colours and well thought out depth of field. Great all-round photos. Well done.