Sunday May 27, 2012

On the ball

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Vera Zvonareva of Russia returns the ball to her compatriot Elena Dementieva during their quarterfinal of the Pan Pacific Open tennis tournament in Tokyo on Friday. Dementieva won the match 6-4, 7-5.

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    diddlefinger

    What a scary picture! That ball gave her goose bumps!! Anyway, credit to the photographer for the juxtapose :)

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    smartacus

    How do you take a photo like this? As a novice photographer, I would welcome any tips from experts.

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    Gurukun

    Hungry?

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    ebisen

    smartacus - do not take any advice from the photographer taking this picture :) - it is of very low quality...

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    gogogo

    bleep

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    porter

    Hillarious picture. It looks she is eating the ball.

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    Judderman

    maybe she`s one of those annoying grunter/shriekers on court,thats one way to shut her up!

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    GW

    oishikatta!

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    some14some

    Hair Raising Picture, not of good taste !

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    nonsibi

    Good shot @ the right time! Well done!

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    paulinusa

    "How do you take a photo like this? As a novice photographer, I would welcome any tips from experts."

    Pure chance. The photographer probably took hundreds of photos.

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    Sarge

    "How do you take a photo like this?"

    Bad luck.

    Back in the old days, I would have thrown this picture out, nowadays I'd just delete it.

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    WilliB

    I wonder how it tastes!

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    JohnBecker

    @smartacus: It's not so much a matter of timing - the photographer was almost certainly shooting 8 or 9 frames per second here. Also, you can see that there's almost no depth of field - he had his aperture open wide, to allow for quicker shutter speed. And because he wasn't using flash, he was probably shooting at a pretty high ISO setting.

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    ca1ic0cat

    John is probably right but it looks like she's blowing a bubble with green gum and waiting for it to pop onto her face.

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    Smythe

    One must admit that this is a very interesting photo of the Russian tennis player in action. How it was taken so many of us are left wondering. So credit to the photographer.

    True ca1ic0cat I thought, at first. it was a massive bubble gum about to pop.

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