Quote of the day: "From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man--the function of his reasoning mind." --Ayn Rand
These are the photos I took at the Dartmouth Intramural Climbing Competition on Feb. 3, 2002. I have divided the photos into three categories, based on my subjective criteria which I describe in each section. Obviously, this has nothing to do with the person in the photo or what they are doing--it is based instead on my (in)ability to properly capture them doing their amazing, gravity-defying feats.
Since I don't know most people's names, I decided to use thumbnails as links to the full-size photos but I have included names when I knew them (if you know someone's name, please let me know).
Most of the shots were taken at 1280x960 resolution. If the picture was of good quality, I left it at that resolution (that's really too large for use on normal web pages though). In some cases I reduced the image size to sharpen up the photo. The color balance in some of the photos is a bit off, usually toward the yellow. I set the digital camera to the white balance setting that looked best but it wasn't exactly right. Unfortunately, it varies from place to place (especially from the old gym to the new gym). If I had the time I'd try to correct it in each photo but that would take forever, and I figured you probably want to see them before summer term... :-)
These are the best shots in my opinion. These shots are in focus (for the most part), well lit, and most importantly the face (and especially the eyes) of the subject are visible. Hopefully, there is also an expression of intensity/emotion on the subject's face. It's hard to get a lot of shots of people's faces because most of the time they are looking at a wall and not at me!
Nira Salant
Robert Black
Justin Goodman
Erica Mintzer
Erica Mintzer
Merrick Johnston
Sara Hellmuth
Michael Lee
Michael Lee
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These shots are not too bad, but I didn't feel they were in the "best" category, usually because the person's eyes are not visible, the focus is a bit off, or there is some motion that was not frozen by the camera (this happens when there isn't enough light to allow a fast shutter speed).
Robert Black
Evan Skow
David Asmussen
David Asmussen
David Asmussen
Merrick Johnston
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Justin Goodman
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Robert Black
Robert Black
Robert Black
Nira Salant
Merrick Johnston
Merrick Johnston
Nira Salant
Merrick Johnston
Merrick Johnston
Merrick Johnston
Daniel Cross-Call