On 10/23/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for all the comments on #44. > > Another from Berkeley on Sunday ... For this one I had the camera in > my lap, held vertically, and set the focus and exposure purely by > guess as it was too dark in the room to see the numbers on the > shutter speed dial or on the lens. I could find the infinity mark and > turned the focusing ring by the amount I thought was about right, and > I could find the A setting and then click-stop to the 1/2 second > mark. I made two exposures, this one is sharp enough. > > I liked the way the light was coming in the window of the lecture > hall and rimlighting the person sitting across the aisle watching the > film that was being featured: > > http://homepage.mac.com/ramarren/photo/PAW7/44a.htm >
Maybe it's because you said it was taken in Berkeley, but that made me think of higher education (such as it is...), which made me think of people in dark libraries at study carals (sp?), and that always reminded me of medieval monk-scribes holed up in dark cells in their monasteries, quill in hand... Maybe it's for all that imagery that I absolutely love this photo. Just amazing, it is!! cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
