[Leica] Pitching for a job

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

I was shooting in bursts (it's about the only way to get sports
photos, even in the days of film...hahaha) but since it's the 1Ds MkII
the bursts aren't particularly fast by the standards of most sports
photogs.

BUT...in this particular case, as I look at the images, I find that it
is a single snap although this pitcher's previous and next pitches
were both shot in burst-mode. And none of them were as good.

Amazing.

Adam

On 10/20/05, Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au> wrote:
> I really like the moment of "impact" you have captured: tell me it was
> done with the index finger, not with 30 frames per second ;-)
>
> On 21/10/2005, at 3:59 AM, Adam Bridge wrote:
>
> > We're down in Arizona for a week, opening the house, getting  yard in
> > shape, all made more difficult by some seriously torrential rains that
> > blew through here on Tuesday so my yard looked more like a river than
> > anything else.
> >
> > In spite of that we went to an Arizona Fall League game in Peoria
> > (that's in the north-west part of the Phoenix area) where maybe 500
> > people are crammed into an 8,000 seat ball park. It's an intimate
> > setting and it's just fine to bring in a long lens and do snaps of
> > guys who are working really hard to make the jump from A or AA ball to
> > AAA.
> >
> > So I took my 560 telyt and a tripod and found a place to watch the
> > pitcher and got this shot:
> >
> > <http://www.adambridge.com/Photos/2005/10/19/_L3U7079.jpg>
> >
> > Of course it's a Leicanon shot: 1Ds Mk II.
> >
> > Your comments/thoughts would be most welcome.
> >
> > Adam Bridge
> >
> >
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