Well this has taken a while. When we returned from shooting the race start last Friday, I opened the door to a ringing phone. I transfered my images while I put out fires and ended up packing for a trip instead of culling through them.

The bowman checks the spinnaker at the start of the race from Annapolis to Newport.

I did manage to copy a set onto a small hard drive before I headed out the door for a few days. So as I get a few minutes I’ll dig through them and post them up here. Eventually I’ll create a gallery on www.markduehmig.com but I’ll wait until I get back to my office and my color-corrected monitors.

The weather that day could result in really powerful images or rather dull colors with poor contrast. And I got both. I chose to shoot slightly underexposed (.7 f/stop under) so that the bright grey skies wouldn’t fool my light meter. I don’t think that was necessary not that I’ve glanced at some of my images, but better to be under exposed than over exposed.

My hopes of getting some good crew shots were frustrated by everyone wearing hoods, hiding their faces and thus their expressions. Rotten.

I shot about 450 images and I think around 40 are worth something. Maybe two or three will make it into my portfolio. When I was shooting film, if i got one really good picture out of a roll, I was thrilled. I guess that is about the same, just the rolls are bigger. 

So here is my first shot posted. More to follow.

Mark
www.MarkDuehmig.com