Matamoros, Cesar A. wrote: > Volleyball at the Pier - Steve Larson, USA > I am wondering if the softness of the image is due to the lens. I > am not familiar with your lens. I'd like to give it a try :-) That is the > only thing I dislike about the image. > Some people would want more outside the two players to be seen. > Some may even want the water. This would, in my opinion, detract from the > two players, the team at work. This may be because of my familiarity with > playing beach volleyball. This brings back the whole aspect of the game - > unfortunately the three people I used to play with have left this area. > Something I miss terribly. > So, I guess I am saying that this shot talks to me. I can see the > individual form of the digger/setter. That has always intrigued me how the > arms and hands of all the diggers/setters I have seen seem to be different. > I can read the other player anticipating what he is going to do and make it > all work out for the team. I can go on, but you get where I am going with > this. > Other than the softness, and not knowing the conditions and actual > colors of the scene, this is a good shot. Well done. > > > César Matamoros II > Panama City, Florida > in New York, New York
Hi César, Thanks for the comments. I`m glad you liked it as an "action shot". The 1000mm I`m still trying to figure out, in the pic I think the focus was a little too much in the foreground, I should have added another stop maybe, because I was just about at "close focus" (100 ft.) with the pic. I don`t know where the weird color of the whole pic came from, probably the scanner. The softness I have to work out with different shutter release method and/or tripod. It sounds like you really enjoy beach volleyball César, my wife played a lot too. Thanks again for taking time to comment. Steve Larson Redondo Beach, California - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
