Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, Yes it was outdoor at Europe's largest artificial ice skating surface, the Dolder Eisbahn in Zurich. Straight sunlight at 5 pm. I did some video shooting of my daughter's skate show, which I did more from the left (shadow) side of the rink. Afterwards I wanted to pack my gear in the car but then thought the direct counterlight could be quite attractive for some additional photographs. Ric: I tried several croppings, at top and right, but the more I cropped, the more the picture got a kind of "tele lens character", and the composition got less interesting. The showed version is about 80-90% of the original shot (which was at approx. 150mm eq. focal length on the strongly off-topic compact digicam I used). Thanks to all who looked and commented Didier >Didier, >Well done a fine use of making her shadow work. >The clean single shadow probably indicates this is an outdoor rink? Correct? > >Usually what happens on indoor rinks if this were the case, there are >usually several "hot spot lights" following the skater creating multiple >shadows. Which become distracting instead of a clean shadow as you have >here. Then again sometimes they create beautiful coloured shadows due to >filtered lighting. > >ted > >Didier Ludwig showed: >>http://mogool.com/PAW2007/?pic=11<<<