Baseball from the past few weeks...

[DaveL]

A player from New Zealand, Scott Campbell and Dustin Martin both
kids hitting well... 300 plus in the Eastern League (AA).


http://DaveJL1984.smugmug.com/photos/288075878_A8Hjp-M.jpg

playing around with a fisheye... I was at f/6 or so and had to tweak the
face, still very dark. Ideally, I could have moved in closer and move it
up a little however I was taking shots another photographer and would
have jumped in his shot...

http://DaveJL1984.smugmug.com/photos/293880270_wQZYn-M.jpg


Shot from the handicapped section (which was empty BTW)
My camera is just outside the netting while I am pretty much
behind it... good cos, a bat came pretty close this day. So far
I've had good luck avoiding stuff.

http://DaveJL1984.smugmug.com/photos/288068031_rueqa-M.jpg

[DaveL]

http://DaveJL1984.smugmug.com/photos/293515320_nZMKn-M.jpg

Toby Gardenhire, son of the Twins Manager... he's hitting
.300 plus I believe... The comcast sign in the dugout is new
and IMHO provides a better background than concrete...
One day, I'd like to bring a oversized sharpie and color those
washers spaced 1 ft apart black ;)

http://DaveJL1984.smugmug.com/photos/293514715_VLCDg-L.jpg

Aaron Mathews from yesterday w/mom on his wristband. Our local paper used this shot in their baseball blog this morning...

[MJPhotos24]

playing around with a fisheye... I was at f/6 or so and had to tweak the
face, still very dark. Ideally, I could have moved in closer and move it
up a little however I was taking shots another photographer and would
have jumped in his shot...

what ya mean? Another photog was taking that shot and you took it too?

[DaveL]

we were shooting together...

[bobbyz]

Nice shots.

[MJPhotos24]

we were shooting together...

ok, for a sec there I thought another photog was doing his portraits and you were sneakin in and doing yours underneath him...now I know you were working together I'll give advice to anyone that thinks that's ok since many think it is, but..it's NOT!! I work my butt off to set up photo shoots with teams and when another photog comes and shoots the same shots I'm doing without asking, even if it's at a different angle, I believe (and I'm not the only one) he's stealing from my work. NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER try to shoot alongside another photog who's setting up players without permission - it's insanely wrong!! Do your own work and pose them, not steal off another photographer, I'm glad you weren't doing that and working with the other photog. But that is my advice to others as I've had other guys try to do it and found it a disgrace and they've been banned now.