Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 11/6/03 5:19 PM, Adam Bridge at abridge@mac.com wrote: > I was down in Arizona for a few weeks and made it to a couple of Arizona Fall > League baseball games. The World Series had just finished the day I took > these. > I could have done individual shots of the entire crowd on the few rolls of > film > in my camera bag. There were more players than spectators. > > I like this portrait the best, clearly a Boy of October (it was a Monday > afternoon at about 1:30 when I took this): > > <http://www.splitsecondfilms.com/2003-Peoria-AZ/TriX-31-Peoria.jpg> > > Then there was this woman who was definately kicking back: > > <http://www.splitsecondfilms.com/2003-Peoria-AZ/TriX-38-Peoria.jpg> > > But this woman, clearly a transplant from New Yawk, was totally into the game. > And maybe the players too. > > <http://www.splitsecondfilms.com/2003-Peoria-AZ/TriX-42-Peoria.jpg> > > She sat behind the third base dugout cheering for every player, finding > something positive to shout. Maybe she WASN'T a New Yawker after all! > > All taken on TriX @ 400, R8 with 100mm APO. > > Comments appreciated. > So who sez the 100 APO isn't for portraits? Nice shots. I like the Boy of October best. The transplanted New Yorker seems tilted to me. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html