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Photo: The Abandoned Baseball

The Abandoned Baseball — the game is over, and the ball forgotten

The game is over, and the ball, forgotten. I found this on the ground outside the baseball field at the park. I moved it to where the grass was more brown (no one waters it), laid in the dirt, and shot this. I used a really large aperture — F1.6, so just the front of the baseball would be in focus, but nothing else, so the subject would seem singled out. I couldn’t even go down to F1.4, because I was maxing out with a 1/4000 …

Source: The Abandoned Baseball

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-06-08T04:58:21Z in Source Images, with these tags: the abandoned baseball, 0 Comments. 2 words.

Source Image: The Abandoned Baseball

Source image, compiled from the Canon Rebel XTi RAW file using the default settings in PhotoFiltre Studio.