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35mm – 12.12.2009


The Library of Congress – III

Young

Bain News Service,, publisher.

Young "Cy" Young [Irv Young] between seasons

[ca. 1909]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Photo shows baseball pitcher Irving Melrose who was known as "Young Cy" and "Cy the second."
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. "Irv Young" added to the title to clarify the baseball player’s name on advice of source: Flickr Commons project, 2008.

Date based on research by the Pictorial History Committee, Society for American Baseball Research, 2006.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Subjects:
Young, Irv,–1877-1935.
Baseball players.

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.03121

hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b40550

Call Number: LC-B2- 651-15 


The Library of Congress – II

[General view, II, Antwerp, Belgium] (LOC)

General view, II, Antwerp, Belgium; between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]; 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.


The Library of Congress – I

Walter Blair, catcher, Rochester, International League (baseball) - (Library of Congress)


From the waist down

We create a small camera club in the office where every month an outsider sets a theme for our photo challenge. The selected theme for July was “from the waist down”. This seemed a good opportunity to play a bit with the theme. So I made a mental photograph and tried to make the setup according to the equipment I have available. It was fun, even in my 30m2 apartment. The setup was not complex, one digital slr with a 100mm f2.8 Macro, tlr (Minolta Autocord), white bed sheets, single flash with remote triggers, some black paper and a wireless shutter.

I had the digital slr on a tripod focusing down on the waist level viewfinder glass of the tlr which wasfocusing on my toes. Since the tlr viewfinder was dark I used a flash, 1/2 and 35mm (if I remember correctly). Since I wanted to have viewfinder brighter that everything else and avoid reflections on the camera I used some black paper. At last since I was my own model the wireless shutter was very useful. The fact that I always had to get up, check the photo, correct settings and go back under the sheets to continue was a bit annoying. Still in the end I am mostly happy because mostly was the mental photograph I took on the first place, and in this case that was the most important because the photograph is not that good.


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