These photos are for a group I’m participating in on Flickr. It’s dedicated to The Art of Composition by Bert Krages. These photos are for Exercise 4 from Chapter 4, which deal with photographs of snooker or pool. From the book:
The object of the exercise is to find arrangements among the balls during the course of a game. Do not ask the players to pause while you are doing the exercise, since an important aspect of the exercise is to develop quickness in assessing compositions in somewhat dynamic settings.
I’m not thrilled with the photos but I’m happy enough with them. Krages recommends an aperature of f2.8, but I opened up to 1.4f because I think it provided a more dramatic background.
50mm, 1/200 sec, f1.4, ISO 400
50mm, 1/200 sec, f1.4, ISO 400
50mm, 1/125 sec, f1.4, ISO 800
50mm, 1/160 sec, f1.4, ISO 800