@alsjazzera Thanks Allan, I agree without the red band it would be quite a bit less of an image.
@Pinkbikerbabe , thanks Mandy, also tried a few with shallower DOF, focussed on both the front edge of the ball, and also on just the rear edge, but they didn;t work as well. This was focussed about 1/4 to a 1/3 of the way round, with aperture set to just have the rear edge falling OOF.
@JasonGlyn cheers Jason, I did go compeltely SC on attached, but it wasn;t right, it was pretty muted anyway, but I just puled it down a touch. ALways like to hear opinions, nothing works for everyone and I prefer when people say if it doesn't work for them.
The shadow on the rubber band ball wasnlt altered to darker, if anything I lifted it slightly, but the far side of the ball from the light is dark, I had the flash literally just out of shot, with some card "barn doors" I think would be the technical term to stop light getting to the camera or the black paper behind the ball.
Also thought you;d appreciate Space Odyssey, again credit to Andy
@posiview as I never would have had the idea myself.
Oh, and the kids used to play with the ball when it was smaller, but its just tooo big and dense now. Might be fun to take it out to an empty car park and throw it around a bit..... hmmmmm