American Cinematographer - October 2004 - 60

Inside Baseball
Right: The 28person

electrical
crew was

divided into two
groups

dubbed

"North" and

mHu;oEl

"South," with
each

competing
half

mi

to manage

of the stadium's

lighting setup as
efficiently as
possible. In the
spirit of
competition, the
scoreboard
shows the two
crews' starting
lineups. Below:
A panoramic
shot of the Ring

of Fire ablaze.
The setup is
detailed in the

diagram on the

opposite page.

Stan receives his honor, a statistical
error

is detected and three of his hits

disqualified, thereby tarnishing his
legend. Crushed that his claim to great¬
ness is gone, Stan decides to don his

are

Milwaukee

Brewers

uniform

once

again, just long enough to rack up those
seven long
years away from the game, he finds the

three elusive hits. After

task much easier said than done, but as

lot of books and talked about the way
still photographers approach the sport.
In

To achieve that, Hurlbut used a
Panavision Primo 3:1 zoom,

usually with

the 1.4x extender for shots in the 400-

shots depicting
"Everything but
player falls off out of depth of field,

595mm range, for many
Stan's turns at the plate.

general, all of the shots are purely
about the players, and everything that
surrounds them falls so deeply out of

the

focus that the result almost looks like a

vision," says Hurlbut. "We also tried to

watercolor

show how

painting. You have a sharp
player set against a soft, green back¬
ground, or against the many colors of

which simulates the batter's tunnel
a good hitter can read a
pitcher - how he can see where the
pitcher's fingers are placed on the ball,
where his elbow is placed, how his

struggles to sharpen his skills he
begins to rediscover his love for the

the crowd and the outfield wall, but the

game.

only detail in focus is the player.

shoulder turns

"Also, Stan Ross is a very
talented hitter, and in our research we

coming. We used Swing & Tilt lenses to
create the feeling of Stan zeroing in on
those tiny details.

he

Hurlbut, who had last tackled

large-venue lighting while following
college marching bands on the gridiron
for Drumline, quickly stepped up to the
plate to take the Mr. 3000 challenge.
"The director, Charles Stone [III], and I
talked

56 October 2004

been covered in other films," says the
cinematographer. "We also looked at a

a

lot about how baseball had

talked to

a

lot of baseball experts

who

talked about the 'tunnel vision' that

and know what is

"Charles and I wanted to be able

a

and his ability to 'read' a
pitcher in incredible detail. We wanted
to capture that feeling on film."
hitter gets

-

to

capture the plays as they happened, to

literally follow the ball around the field
during an extended play in one shot," he



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