Nice shot, Wiggy. Looks like that ball is going to right field. Nice framing. I like the way the catcher's mitt intrudes. And you just nailed the moment. Makes it a fun photo.
I love that old Vivitar 200. I've owned one for 30 years. Mine has a lot of cleaning marks that resulted from many years of wiping rubber and asphalt off of it with my t-shirt. But it was a great lens, and it now occupies a place of honor in my display case. Paul > Not sure what PESO stands for, but I get the idea that if one wants to > share a photo with the group, this is the way to do it. Please correct > me if I'm actually asking to be debagged and radished instead. > > I am a strange guy, I bought my *ist DS so I could mount my classic M42 > lenses on it and use it like my Bessaflex TM in digital. So far, it > seems to be just what I was after. I also have other bad habits - I do > not have any Microsoft products, I use Linux and all the free software > that comes with it. > > So I am trying to automate my workflow, using some tools that run on > Linux and scripting them in Perl. I am using exiftool, dcraw, and > imagemagick(convert) to take my raw PEF files and massage them into > something worth looking at. This one, however, I converted using the > UFdraw import tool in The Gimp (the Linux version of Photoshop). Direct > from .PEF to JPG, resized, some minor image level adjustment and USM > applied. > > This was taken at the restored 1930's era baseball stadium in the little > town of Wilson, North Carolina where I live. Lens was a > cheap-n-cheerful Vivitar 200mm f3.5 shot stopped down to f5.6 or so. > Shutter speed, according to EXIF, was 1/500, AE used, ISO 200, Center > Weighted Metering. I should have used spot-metering, in retrospect. Oh > well. > > Hope you like it! > > http://www.cameramentor.com/jpg/baseball_001.jpg > > Best, > > Wiggy > http://www.growlery.com/wigwam >
