Your tour portrait this month is a bit of a a departure. We're featuring 18 year old Mirra Andreeva who is already ranked 7 in the world and won back-to-back WTA 1000 events in Dubai and Indian Wells when she was 17 years old. She may be the only active WTA player to have won back-to-back WTA 1000s, formerly known as WTA Premiere events. Please click here to see.
This is a departure because Indian Wells, in a fit of bureaucracy, wouldn't allow cameras into Stadium 2 when I saw her. So, these photos are not only taken with a cell phone but under gruesome conditions for photography, at a distance, in intermittent rain and gloom. But since Mirra is a hot topic I did my best to coax images out of the phone and give you a look at her shots.
To give you an idea of the challenge, here's one before and after. First the original phone image. Face in deep shadows with sun directly behind her, moving fast, and obviously a tiny image.
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And here's what I was able to coax out of it. This one came out better than some simply because the sun popped out and photos, especially on the tiny, teeny sensors in phones, love photos. It gives you more to work with.
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This is a departure because Indian Wells, in a fit of bureaucracy, wouldn't allow cameras into Stadium 2 when I saw her. So, these photos are not only taken with a cell phone but under gruesome conditions for photography, at a distance, in intermittent rain and gloom. But since Mirra is a hot topic I did my best to coax images out of the phone and give you a look at her shots.
To give you an idea of the challenge, here's one before and after. First the original phone image. Face in deep shadows with sun directly behind her, moving fast, and obviously a tiny image.
filedata/fetch?id=107787&d=1751818434&type=thumb
And here's what I was able to coax out of it. This one came out better than some simply because the sun popped out and photos, especially on the tiny, teeny sensors in phones, love photos. It gives you more to work with.
filedata/fetch?id=107788&d=1751818434&type=thumb
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