Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]light table with most films and then go >>> outside and >>> it's like you're reading a book about thunderstorms and you go >>> outside and >>> it's a sunny day and you're amazed the sun is out. Real life is >>> not the >>> same. The sky dos not look like neon. >>> So I use Astia and still Kodachrome. >>> Nowadays color saturation wise it doesn't matter what film you use >>> anyway >>> because that's tweaked buy yourself anyway command U in Photoshop. >>> So I don't sweat the sat. >>> You're Noct on a digital body would give you a 75 and your portrait perspective would be ok for soccer baseball card shots! Which I think are more strict genre which would not support so quickly alternate optics. I can tell you my Mickey Mantel was shot at at least f8. Those days they didn't think it was death to be able to make out the backdrops. F8 and be there. http://www.themick.com/Cards.htm#Card%20%2317 They look like they were shot an A to Z range from normals to longer teles. The Normals look more cheeky. They may not have wanted to be too close to him when he was holding the bat. HE was known to not be so pleasant I think all the time. About my favorite is Babe Ruth, Nikolas Muray, c. 1927. He looks like he's about to bust all the china in the china shop to paraphrase John Szarkowski in his "looking at Photographs" book. http://www.geh.org/ar/strip18/htmlsrc/m197701892448_ful.html#topofimage Soccer girls of course are the same. I'm careful not to make them angry. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/