[Leica] IMG: trophy girl

[Adam Bridge]

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.

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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