PESO: Pretty Girls

[Boris Liberman]

Paul,

> I've shot a lot with continuous focus the last couple of days. None  
> of it was ultra high speed work, but I took many shots of Grace  
> running and lots of shots of people walking down the street, and even  
> a few of cars driving down the street -- most of them head on. So  
> far, it has worked very well. I would guess that with the new *D  
> lenses, it will work extremely well. Anyway, here's a shot of a  
> couple of girls walking down Old Woodsard in Birmingham Michigan.  
> This is cropped to less than half of the frame (it was a vertical),  
> and it's at 1600 ISO. Yes, there's some noise, but not a heck of a  
> lot considering the conditions. F 6.3 @1/160th, DA 50-200 @ 200mm.  
> ISO 1600 in Tva mode. Best of all, they're pretty girls:
> http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=5390592&size=lg

My immediate sensation was - sans the cell phone the girl on the right 
is holding, this photo could have been made back in 70s... Julia seems 
to approve.

Fascinating, don't you think?

Boris