Newbie post - Softball & Baseball

[HNC609]

http://http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh81/icarter/IMG_7041.jpg

http://http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh81/icarter/Softball_Pitcher2.jpg

http://http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh81/icarter/ZachP1.jpg

http://http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh81/icarter/Pitcher1.jpg

http://http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh81/icarter/popout.jpg

http://http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh81/icarter/Catcher01.jpg

http://http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh81/icarter/IMG_7241.jpg

[HNC609]

THANKS for looking!

[Aaagogo]

3rd one is my favorite, espicially the background.

5th one is OOF

[allstar25]

You have too much going on in the photos. The background is distracting. Try to crop them a little tighter.

[vetkrazy]

#1 Needs a tight vertical crop on the batter. When you first view the picture your eye goes to the catcher/ump and you miss the batter.
#2-3 Good
#4 Watch your horizon line.
#5 OOF, looks like a heavy crop. Horizon line tilted.
#6 Good, but looks a bit soft.

I don't know much about the 40D but from your exif data it says "action program". I don't know what lens you were using either. By using a program mode you are handicapping your camera. Your f-stops were from f/4 to f/6.3. This not going to give you a good DOF and brings the distracting backgrounds into play.

The idea in sports is to keep your lens wide open and a shutter speed fast enough to freeze the action. For this you need to get familiar with the creative side of your camera. A common set up for sports would be AV mode, ISO would depend on conditions, AI Servo, center point focus and many find that moving the focus button to the "*" via CF 4 helps.

You captured the action of the games well, now you just need to turn your camera loose and use all of its tools.

[HNC609]

Thank you for the feed back! I will definately implement your suggestions during my next shoot.