Baseball...

photobug · Mar 30, 2004

Nephew's baseball game this afternoon. Really crappy light right before the rain started. Sigma 70-200 f/2.8 @ 200mm. Kinda fun 'til the cam batteries died. Somewhat embarrassing.

Jeff Canes · Mar 31, 2004

I through it was illegal to charge the catcher in youth lengths

They look nice, good the lighting and DOF :thumbsup:

terri · Mar 31, 2004

Hey, these are terrific! Very sharp and well-exposed. Great action on both, too.

All right, since you have the basics down, now all you need to remember is the battery check..... :wink:

PLAY BALL!!!

Sharkbait · Mar 31, 2004

Do you remember what kind of shutterspeed you were running on these? They're both really good!

karissa · Mar 31, 2004

Jeff Canes said:
They look nice, good the lighting and DOF :thumbsup:

I agree... they are nice shots... I might have tried to use a littel bit shorter DOF on that first one or gotten the faces of the other players....

Harpper · Mar 31, 2004

The first one is a classic Jim. I like the drama the picture captures. :wink:

wwjoeld · Mar 31, 2004

i like my sports photos with really tight crops focusing on the action,

you have the kid flying over the catcher, but i find myself distracted by all the other stuff, you still captured the action very well.

photobug · Mar 31, 2004

Thanks guys, pretty humble for a first effort, but ya gotta start somewhere I guess.

Jeff- High school ball. About the only weird thing they do is pinch run for the pitcher & catcher (if coach chooses) without removing the player.

terri- the stupid part was... I knew the batteries were low, I just walked off & left the new ones on the desk on the way to work. Duh!

Shark- 1/350 @ f/3.5 on the first, f/2.8 on the second. Used Tv mode because I wanted to make sure I could freeze the action. Judging by the ball I might shoulda gone a bit higher on the shutter speed & bumped the ISO up.

karissa & wwjeold- good point, I need to crop both of these. This version was just resized for the web & titled.

Harpper- the first one was almost in slow motion. They had him out by 7 feet & you could see him trying to decide what to do. It was like slooooooow motion collision at the plate. Comical almost.

Harpper · Mar 31, 2004

photobug said:
Harpper- the first one was almost in slow motion. They had him out by 7 feet & you could see him trying to decide what to do. It was like slooooooow motion collision at the plate. Comical almost.

Lol, that's too funny. It's too bad you also didn't have a video camera. :wink:

The picture turned about pretty dramatic. I actually thought the guy was running at full speed.

photobug · Mar 31, 2004

Well, he was running, but his heart really wasn't in a major collision.

Here's a couple of possible crops.

drlynn · Mar 31, 2004

Nice cropping of two great pics, Jim! Couldn't have done better myself!! :wink:

Jeff Canes · Mar 31, 2004

Nice crop of #1 8) , #2 works ether way for me. Also did you use a tripod or monopod?

PS: that a common youth rule its to help encourage or with the leagues that requirement that everyone plays, but you probably know that

manda · Apr 1, 2004

Yeah I like seeing the lines of the team behind actually.
These are great action shots Big Bug.
Your landscapes and macros are always fabulous but its nice to see something a little different from you.
Power popping colour!