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Aperture Series: Baseball Diamond
This simple two-frame series with the Hasselblad XCD 90mm f/3.2 is unusually instructive in two ways, which was my hunch when I took the time to make the images in some very unappealing lighting.
Baseball diamond
Adobe Camera Raw 9.8.0.692. View ACR settings.
Exposures: f3.2 @ 1.3 sec, f/6.3 @ 6.3 sec
Manual focus; the X1D Could not autofocus on the chain-link fence.
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