Hoping to break 130

Bowling Alleys remind me of the casinos in downtown Las Vegas. They are places void of natural light, clocks, and newfangled anything. I think bowling alleys in our region are especially frozen in time due to our economic plight over the past 30 years. It is sort of amazing in the days of Wii and declining social club attendance that they are able to hang on. These are the things a lame former political blogger contemplates between frames hoping to break 130. The shots were taken at a fundraiser for Junior Achievement held at Cloverleaf Lanes in Independence. From what I understand, these fundraisers held at bowling alleys across Northeast Ohio last Saturday.

The white ceiling tiles were a friendly surface for my flash to bounce off of. I zoomed it in a little bit to focus the light on the bowlers. I set my shutter speed at 125, my ISO at 200, and adjusted the f-stop on the fly. I used a Lightroom preset called "Kelsey Smith Just B" on a couple of the photos in my post edit to try to give them a desaturated 1950's look with deeper blacks.