Little League Allstars

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I am in love with this setup. The 20D is great and combined with the 70-200L IS my customers are loving our pictures. The night shots are really incredible. Here are a few Little League Allstar shots.


http://www.trianglephotography.com/gallery/catcher.jpg



http://www.trianglephotography.com/gallery/fielder.jpg


http://www.trianglephotography.com/gallery/batter.jpg

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pretty darn nice, #3 is soft...they lack MAJOR action but overall still tie in an interesting subject for the most part...

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Thanks, #3 is soft. I was using a doubler and had looked at the histogram - everything looked alright. I was shooting in AV mode at 5.6, but I did not realize until I got home and reviewed that my shutter speeds were way to low. Lesson learned.

The next day I ran my ISO up higher to get the shutter speeds I wanted.

BTW Will, I looked at your pics and they looked great. Can you tell me what mode you prefer to shoot in to get the results that you have? Also do you use autofocus or manual?

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For selling purposes, good job, parents will like them, but nothing special in the photographic sense. That 2.8 comes in handy especially if you add a 2x extender to it. f/5.6 at like 640mm when fully zoomed in(taking the 1.6 crop factor into play). Very nice range it covers.


As for auto focus versus manual. If you expect something like a player stealing for 2nd base, you can pre-focus(manually) expecting the play. NOt sure how abundant that is in little league though. There's an example of where it can be useful.

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For selling purposes, good job, parents will like them, but nothing special in the photographic sense.

The fly ball caught in mid air in the second photo is a great shot. I have shot sports for several years and that is not an easy shot to get. You are entitled to your opinion however.

The other shots were posted to show the brilliance of the lens and camera, non-action but great shots. The point of my business is to sell to parents, and they love them so far. I could not get shots in dark sittuations with my old setup, low-light was tough. This camera has opened new oppertunities for me. A great investment.

I have several action shots that I will post later. We are real busy with Allstar Games right now. I was just sharing some photos.

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The fly ball caught in mid air in the second photo is a great shot. I have shot sports for several years and that is not an easy shot to get. You are entitled to your opinion however.

The other shots were posted to show the brilliance of the lens and camera, non-action but great shots. The point of my business is to sell to parents, and they love them so far. I could not get shots in dark sittuations with my old setup, low-light was tough. This camera has opened new oppertunities for me. A great investment.

I have several action shots that I will post later. We are real busy with Allstar Games right now. I was just sharing some photos.

You showed the catch after "the moment" so, sorry to be harsh, but in the sense of portfolio stuff, I wouldn't put that in there, if you were putting together one for instance. For a parent, defintely a seller.

But as I mentioned, from a selling to parents point of view, they are all great. Sorry if I came off harsh.

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thanks...Ive shot for sales to parents before as well, never baseball, but its a very different mindset, easy to please most parents but stressfull because you have so much to cover, and if you dont get a shot of one kid, all hell breaks loose when that parent wants that photo...haha. Selling on site can get messy too...sheesh

for baseball/softball...i prefocus/MF for the pitcher shots from behind home plate (parents will EAT that shot up, even at College/NCAA level I get parents calling about those...haha), ai servo for anything else

moved the AF to the * , SI setup for the most part http://siphoto.com/?canon20D.inc I just dont shoot RAW, jpeg works fine, especially when dumping loads of photos for parent sales/print...no need to waste that computer power/HD space when working like a chicken with your head cut off to please others while they wait...

Usually Av if its daytime, M if its night since the lights change so much on the College field here...and home plate is completely in the dark as far as good lighting for photography goes for me, I just sort of metered ahead and knew what i needed to switch to since AV kept wanting to bounce around like crazy at night while trying to track a player running or something...

I generally stay around f4 for baseball, blurring the BG is important since there is so much distracting stuff usually...but for college games I cannot get as close as I could for little league...

Im stuck at 200mm for my max focal length with my canon though, when I worked for the University we had a nikkor 300mm 2.8, it was perfect for the far infield positions. The 70-200 only allows me to cover home, the pitcher and nearest infield position depending on which dugout i am camping on top of...2nd base was iffy, but doable.

Parents dig leading off shots as well, nail those shots from behind home aiming up the baseline at 3rd when the kid is watching their team mate at bad ready to run...pending they get to score you can track that in as well.

bah, what the heck am i doing up at 4:45am...this probably wont even make sense when i read it tomorrow! haha...ok, time to force myself to sleep...

lasty though, in #1...he looks mad/concentrated, great shot, but you cut off his feet!