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Fenway Park
HDR panorama of Fenway Park - home of the Boston Red Sox - taken in August 2008. Fenway Park is the major league baseball (MLB) stadium located near the busy Kenmore Square in Boston, Massachusetts, in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood. It has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912. It is the oldest of all current Major League Baseball stadiums. .
The Shot
- Taken from near the last row in the right field bleachers at Fenway Park
- Composed with a Nikon D300, handheld without the assistance of the Tripod
- Multiple, single exposure HDR images with a Nikon 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-S VR DX Zoom-Nikkor Lens
- 5 multiple Exposure (+2EV, 0EV, -2EV) images stitched in Adobe Photomerge
Adobe Lightroom 1.4.1
- Exposure adjust
- White balance
- Clarity / contrast
- Saturation levels
- Exported for final processing in Adobe Photoshop CS3
Adobe Photoshop CS3 10.0
- All processing in LAB color
- High-pass filter, applied as Overlay,decreased opacity
- S-curve added to Lightness channel for contrast
- S-curve added to the A/B channel for color correction
- Sharpening to Lightness channel only (1.0 pixels, 65%)
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Day 67 - I got this ball at Game 4 of the NLCS last year. The Cubs lost that series that game, but this year is completely different. Cubs are up in the NLCS 3-2 and if they win today, they're going to the World Series! LET'S GO CUBS!
Taken during early batting practice before the Chicago White Sox faced the Kansas City Royals @ Kauffman Stadium on June 28, 1988. I was standing in the front of the last seat in the upper deck facing the first base line.
Image was processed using Photoshop CC 2015 with help from plug-ins from Topaz Software and onOne Effects.
We attended the 2011 MLB All-Star Game at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona.
Kevin Youkilis - known as Youk - "is an American professional baseball player with the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, he was drafted by the Red Sox in 2001 after playing college baseball at the University of Cincinnati."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Youkilis
The Youkilis family name has an unusual history.[8] His Jewish great-great-great-grandfather, a native of 19th-century Romania, moved to Greece at the age of 16 to avoid conscription at the hands of the notoriously anti-Semitic Cossacks.[4][8] He became homesick, however, and returned to Romania after a couple of years, although he changed his surname from "Weiner" to the Greek name, "Youkilis", to avoid army and jail.[8]
"People have come up to me and starting speaking Greek to me and I don't speak it," Youkilis said. "I feel bad. Ever since I was in Lowell (Class A), people have thought I was Greek. People shout at me, 'I'm Greek, you're Greek.' But I'm not."[9]
Youkilis is the son of a Romanian Jewish jewelry wholesaler,
On August 8, 2005, while playing for the Red Sox, Youkilis took the field in the 9th inning along with Adam Stern and Gabe Kapler, setting a "record" for the most Jewish players on the field at one time in AL history, and the most in Major League Baseball history since four Jewish players took the field for the New York Giants in a game in 1941.[135]
Youkilis was featured in the 2008 Hank Greenberg 75th Anniversary edition of Jewish Major Leaguers Baseball Cards, published in affiliation with Fleer Trading Cards and the American Jewish Historical Society, commemorating the Jewish Major Leaguers from 1871 through 2008.[136] He joined, among other Jewish major leaguers, Ryan Braun, Brad Ausmus, Ian Kinsler, Brian Horwitz, Gabe Kapler, Jason Marquis, Jason Hirsh, John Grabow, Craig Breslow, and Scott Schoeneweis.
He was one of three Jewish players in the 2008 All-Star Game, joining Braun and Kinsler, and one of three Jewish players on the Team USA 2009 World Baseball Classic team, joining Braun and Grabow.[137][138] Kinsler says that "Youkilis always says something to me on the bases. 'Happy Passover,' he'll throw something at me."[139]
Youkilis was named the Jewish MVP for 2008, beating out fellow All-Stars Braun and Kinsler.[140] He was voted the top Jewish baseball player of the decade 2000–09 in online balloting, beating out Shawn Green and Braun.[141] Through the 2010 season, his .294 batting average placed him 6th on the career all-time list (directly behind Phil Weintraub) for batting average by Jewish major leaguers, his 112 home runs placed him 8th (behind Braun), and his 470 RBIs placed him 9th (behind Ausmus).[142]
In Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story, a 2010 documentary film narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Youkilis noted:
It’s something that I probably won’t realize until my career is over, how many people are really rooting for me and cheering for me. And it’s not just because I went 3-for-4, or had a great game. It’s just the fact that I represent a lot of Jewish people and a lot of the Jewish heritage, and the struggles that a lot of our people have had.[143]
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