College Baseball

Out of these three sequences below, which do you find the best? I haven't had time to adjust values and crop, but am looking for opinions on the sequencing as well as pointers. Thanks!
EOS Canon 1D Mark III
24-70L
1/1600 shutter speed
9.0 aperture value
+1/3 exposure compensation
1250 ISO


1) 18 Shot Sequence

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to be honest i dont like any of them. they are too distracting and him standing in the front blocks everything else

Yellowmsp wrote in post #5334563
to be honest i dont like any of them. they are too distracting and him standing in the front blocks everything else

Thanks for the blunt critique.

Mind explaining your thoughts a bit more? What is distracting? What his he blocking?

Its a little to much for me.... there is too much going on. That looks like it took you forever. I mean... it looks cool but it just doesn't make me say WOW!. However you avatar does

Would have been better if there was more separation between the poses. Or maybe 3-4 poses unlike 10-15 as right now.

Also using longer lens. Too much dead space in the whole picture.

^Agreed. Photos I've seen like this are best with minimal images like 3, sometimes 4 depending on separation of the subject from themselves in another area.

The first one is really cool, but too much to make a nice standard photo. I'd go crazy with it like color change or something. The others are too minimal, just being weird in the selected poses.

just how his final stance blocks his face and parts of his body on the one behind and so on. i think if u did the pic with maybe 3-4 motions that aren't really overlapping each other it would look alot better

Here's a couple of ideas - maybe try the sequences with the the starting and finishing photos in color and all the in between images adjusted to grey scale.

or

only have the finishing or starting image in color and the rest in grey scale

I think the multiple image work is interesting, I just think
that lens might be a little short to get a striking image...

I would go with no more than four and crop much tighter.

I don't care for it because of the angle. I think this would work much better if you shot it from closer to first base so the pitcher is moving parallel to your lens. This should allow his face to be visible in every frame.

i think its a good idea, however it doesn't work for me. particularly because its too busy and too much overlap. hope that helps.

Needs to be shot and cropped much tighter. Maybe bring the opacity down on all of the images except for the final.

I like the idea and the shots are crisp, but I dont like the angle or the crop...

As stated, you need to be on the other side of the plate.

Can I ask a favor? Can you take the 18 shot sequence and only use the first 9? Then on layers 1 - 8 and set the opacity to about 50% or so? Leave the last one at 100%....I am curios if that might mellow out the visual confusion that I and some are having with this.....crop a bit tighter too as long as you are in there.....

Thanks,