Sigma 70-200 f2.8 EX DG and chain link

[Asmodeus]

After shooting quite a few pictures this spring of my son playing baseball, a number have people have mentioned to me that the 350D, in their experience, and demonstrated in many of my pictures, really loves the contrast afforded by chain link fences; so much so that it tends to bring out the background more than the subject, regardless of the photographer's intent.

This shot was taken today, in full sunlight. I was shooting a bunch of stuff in aperture priority today, and according to the exif information, this was shot at 1/80 f14, ISO 100, with a focal length of 126 mm.

To my eye, the pitching machine pops pretty well, with the chain link and netting not fooling the camera. This was shot in RAW, and the only change was to save it in JPEG and to change the white balance to daylight (and to resize the image posted). The link posted contains the original JPEG if anyone is interested (it's 7.7 MB)

http://www.supercharger.net/pictures/pmach1.jpg

http://www.supercharger.net/pictures/pmach2.jpg

[ssim]

It is a nice crisp and clear picture for sure. The others that you mention, this could be because of where they have their focus points set and what their metering mode is set at.

In any event, a bangup job on this one.

[CyberDyneSystems]

At f/14 I would have expected the backgrund fence to be at it's wrose.. but I agree it's not so bad here. With a shallower DOF it would just be even less prominent.

[Asmodeus]

I was trying to get the fence and netting to appear to be in the same plane (they're about 15 feet apart) with less DOF the netting just blurred out completely.