Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/21

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: basketball at f1.0
From: abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:40:47 -0700
References: <6E06D013-F8C9-4640-B83D-16C34DDB75B0@mac.com> <3041D269-BCA7-4B2E-BD6F-2BFBAA6D661A@frozenlight.eu>

Good catch, Nathan. You can sure tell it was before Michael Jordan and his 
over-sized shorts that now own the sport.

I'm not sure if I'm ready for the lurid colors that have been worn the past 
few weeks by teams that seem intent on blowing out the color TV cameras. 
It's like watching basketball filmed with hypered Velvia!

Adam

On 2013 Mar 20, at 10:36 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> The action shots are great, but my favorites are the guys waiting for the 
> inbound pass--great expressions--and for some strange reason, I am 
> attracted to the Irish Jig and the court-side ESPN producer ;-)
> 
> Photographing sports with a manual camera is hard, but basketball, as you 
> say, has the advantage that you can focus on the hoop and hope for the 
> best. This is one of my favorite pictures from the 1980s, when I first 
> took up photography:
> 
> http://www.greatpix.eu/Other/Stuff-from-the-20th-century/5775622_gTB2p9#!i=357377885&k=WPCbWs2&lb=1&s=O
> 
> Cheers,
> Natha



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