baseball gallery

[perfectpixel]

Here's a link to a gallery of pictures I took today at a baseball game
http://www.pbase.com/perfectpixel/clu_kingsmen
and one of the shots I like:
http://www.pbase.com/image/26260552.jpg

There's a lot of shots here. Believe it or not these are ~80 of ~400 I shot! That's how much of an amateur I am. :oops:
I'd love to trim it to ~25. I'm hoping the team will have me back again for more.
Please let me know what you think. I value your input at this forum.
Cheers!

[Dawg]

Wow!!! That is a great action shot.

What lens where you using?

Dawg :)

[Mark Kemp]

Very good action shot, nice and big in the frame and shot at the exact right moment.

I just can't get over the fielder's (I think - Im a Brit so baseball is not my thing) left arm. He seems to have no arm below the elbow! I apologise if this guy genuinely has an amputation, but I suspect that it looks that way because it is behind him and he has got 2 gloves in his pocket.

Not a lot you can do, unless you have a similar shot that you could clone a bit more arm from.

I would try a touch more contrast and saturation just to add even more punch

[perfectpixel]

Very good action shot, nice and big in the frame and shot at the exact right moment.

I just can't get over the fielder's (I think - Im a Brit so baseball is not my thing) left arm. He seems to have no arm below the elbow! I apologise if this guy genuinely has an amputation, but I suspect that it looks that way because it is behind him and he has got 2 gloves in his pocket.

Not a lot you can do, unless you have a similar shot that you could clone a bit more arm from.

I would try a touch more contrast and saturation just to add even more punch
Hi Mark,
I've never heard of a one armed baseball player. You need one hand with a glove on it for fielding the ball and one for throwing. Not to say there may not be a special olympics type of a team with players with all kind of challenges, but as a gneral rule, I've never seen it.
Anyway. maybe that's why I hadn't even noticed that until you mentioned it. My attention was mostly on the ball, the guy sliding in and then the strange way the baseman's leg is bent. I cant remember if he collapsed right after that collision or not.
None of the pix in the gallery are manipulated in PS . Just resized for the web. A lot of them could use some help in cropping and more.
Thanks for the comments.
BTW, they were playing in English weather. might as well have been cricket :wink:

[mvrekum]

Indeed a nice shot, just a pitty you cut off the guys leg. Try the next time to focus on the center of the action, which is just a bit to the right on this photo.

Martin

[Bruce Hamilton]

Try the next time to focus on the center of the action,...
Considering the action happening, don't think he had the luxury of composing.

[scotgasch]

Hi Mark,
I've never heard of a one armed baseball player. You need one hand with a glove on it for fielding the ball and one for throwing. Not to say there may not be a special olympics type of a team with players with all kind of challenges, but as a gneral rule, I've never seen it.


Try searching for Pete Gray.....He was a great one armed pro ball player...

There was also a Major league pitcher with only one hand...I don't remember his name at the moment though...

:D :D :D

[Mark Kemp]

Indeed a nice shot, just a pitty you cut off the guys leg. Try the next time to focus on the center of the action, which is just a bit to the right on this photo.

Martin

I disagree - the centre of the action is the ball, the sliding and the base, his trailing foot is not that important really.

I am glad that he really has two arms by the way and im sure he is too !!!

If it was raining cricket stops, nobody wants to get wet

[perfectpixel]

Hi all,
you're right I wish I had the legs in.
you're right I didn't have the time to compose.
you're right I'm real glad I got the ball in there.
you're right.....hey! wait a minute you're not the mrs! :wink:

Seriously though, who am I kidding, I got lucky! I'm just glad the darn thing is in focus. And really tickled that the ball is there.
I can tell you that I wish the sky would open up and drop a markII in my lap. The 10D's 3frames/sec is just too slow, even for a junior collage team level game. But maybe, it'll force me to get better.
Mark, these guys didn't stop because the drizzle wasn't that bad (at first) and neither did I. I wish I had though, 'cause I'm now all worried about my lens & moisture (see my post the EOS form for a whole lot on that)

[Bruce Hamilton]

There was also a Major league pitcher with only one hand...I don't remember his name at the moment though...
Jim Abbott... Played for the California (now Anaheim) Angels.

[mcneguy]

And the Milwaukee (Still Milwaukee) Brewers.

[scotgasch]

There was also a Major league pitcher with only one hand...I don't remember his name at the moment though...
Jim Abbott... Played for the California (now Anaheim) Angels.


That's the guy....thanks :)