Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/08/31

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: trophy girl
From: abridge at mac.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 10:37:16 -0700

Sometimes you go with what you have.

I was at the River Cats game last night with my Sony A7 and a Leitz 180mm f4 
R lens playing with capturing some action shots. Non trivial with a manual 
focus lens. I admire the experts who, "back in the day", made so many great 
images this way!

So I had the 180 on my camera where the little girl in front of us, insanely 
cute, was tossed a baseball by one of the players: a real ball, a "dirty" 
ball, stained with real infield dirt and maybe a grass stain or two.

I only had a few moments while she expressed joy. I could have wished for my 
100mm but I had 180mm.

<http://adam-bridge.smugmug.com/People/Portraits/22288982_39qLkn#!i=3499730077&k=DTDWvQ6&lb=1&s=X3>

I've done this in black and white, treated as Tri-X in Exposure 6. I like 
the color version, which I have not posted, but the B&W just does the job 
better. And it needs that bit of film grain for some reason.

Anyway - comments most welcome. I do know it's a little soft around the eyes 
but maybe that works to the image's advantage. I gave her mom my e-mail 
address but I think she was worried I might want to charge her for the 
picture or something nefarious. People are so damn wary these days. But, 
sigh, not without reason.

Thanks for looking. Comments/critique most welcome and invited.

Adam



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