Thank you very much for the kind words! In answer to your question, yes, I was shooting from the stands. I will be trying to get onto the field in the future, though.
In response to the comments about the image size, I will attempt to make the images smaller in future. No telling what size people have set for their monitor resolution though - this is beyond my control. I can try to choose a resolution that just about everyone should be able to see in one go, but it may make things rather small for those who choose other resolutions for their monitors. Here is a different shot taken on the same day. Different background, for those who found the other distracting: http://www.cameramentor.com/jpg/imgp1210.jpg Thanks to all for the encouraging words, I appreciate it! Best, Wiggy -------Original Message------- > From: "Bruce Dayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: PESO: Pentax *ist DS at the Ball Game > Sent: 06 Jun 2005 10:41:20 > > Hello Wigwam, > > Having just shot over 8,000 little league action shots, I can relate. > Rather than spot metering, you can use Center Weighted and find > something of reasonable reflectance to kind of simulate an ambient > reading.��Use the grass or something.��Usually the lighting is not > going to change a whole lot so one reading should do for awhile. > > Your timing on the shot is pretty good.��I have found that most shots > benefit by the ball being clearly visible in the picture and you have > done well on that count.��The angle that you took this at is a bit too > far behind the batter, so I'm guessing you were in the stands or put > in a location that you couldn't move anymore forward from the batter. > Backgrounds are always a problem with baseball.��Many times, the best > vantage point to shoot from has poor backgrounds.��About all you can > do there is try to shoot closer to wide open to blur it some. > > Nice shot overall! > > Thanks for sharing, > > Bruce > > > Monday, June 6, 2005, 2:42:36 AM, you wrote: > > WJ> Not sure what PESO stands for, but I get the idea that if one wants to > WJ> share a photo with the group, this is the way to do it.��Please correct > WJ> me if I'm actually asking to be debagged and radished instead. > > WJ> I am a strange guy, I bought my *ist DS so I could mount my classic M42 > WJ> lenses on it and use it like my Bessaflex TM in digital.��So far, it > WJ> seems to be just what I was after.��I also have other bad habits - I do > WJ> not have any Microsoft products, I use Linux and all the free software > WJ> that comes with it. > > WJ> So I am trying to automate my workflow, using some tools that run on > WJ> Linux and scripting them in Perl.��I am using exiftool, dcraw, and > WJ> imagemagick(convert) to take my raw PEF files and massage them into > WJ> something worth looking at.��This one, however, I converted using the > WJ> UFdraw import tool in The Gimp (the Linux version of Photoshop).��Direct > WJ> from .PEF to JPG, resized, some minor image level adjustment and USM > WJ> applied. > > WJ> This was taken at the restored 1930's era baseball stadium in the little > WJ> town of Wilson, North Carolina where I live.��Lens was a > WJ> cheap-n-cheerful Vivitar 200mm f3.5 shot stopped down to f5.6 or so. > WJ> Shutter speed, according to EXIF, was 1/500, AE used, ISO 200, Center > WJ> Weighted Metering.��I should have used spot-metering, in retrospect.��Oh > WJ> well. > > WJ> Hope you like it! > > WJ> http://www.cameramentor.com/jpg/baseball_001.jpg > > WJ> Best, > > WJ> Wiggy > WJ> http://www.growlery.com/wigwam -------Original Message-------
