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May 21, 2008 21:38 |  #1

Had a lot of fun shooting my first baseball, Little League or otherwise...

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4) Should have used a faster shutter speed...

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May 22, 2008 09:24 |  #3

Nice first try. I like the last one most. Kind of hard to get faces in the pics when the gear they are wearing is bigger than they are!


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May 22, 2008 09:35 |  #4

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Nice first try. I like the last one most. Kind of hard to get faces in the pics when the gear they are wearing is bigger than they are!

Thanks. :) I've another Little League assignment later today, this time his older brother! I just got the 40D yesterday, so I'm eager to try this new body and see how things go... Having no experience shooting baseball, I almost got hit the other day. :lol:



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May 22, 2008 11:37 |  #5

I like the last one as well. I disagree that you should have used a faster shutter speed, because then I don't think you would have got the nice dirt effect off the glove.

The only thing I dislike is the person standing behind the catcher, but that's just how life is sometimes.




  
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May 22, 2008 12:56 |  #6

Great job on the first shots! The mountains in the background make them seem alot more natural then what I usually see in my backgrounds... Where you from?

I've got some good ideas for shot locations for baseball if you want to find some good ones.

I've been selling my pics to parents for a few years now.




  
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May 22, 2008 17:05 |  #7

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I like the last one as well. I disagree that you should have used a faster shutter speed, because then I don't think you would have got the nice dirt effect off the glove.

The only thing I dislike is the person standing behind the catcher, but that's just how life is sometimes.

Thanks for the comments. The background was way too cluttered so I set my aperture to -- I believe -- f/2.8 on my 70-200 but that's all the blurring I could get out of it. That fellow was standing right behind the catcher in order to speed things up a bit by helping with the loose ball...



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May 22, 2008 17:11 |  #8

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Great job on the first shots! The mountains in the background make them seem alot more natural then what I usually see in my backgrounds... Where you from?

I've got some good ideas for shot locations for baseball if you want to find some good ones.

I've been selling my pics to parents for a few years now.

Thanks for your comments. This baseball field was smack in the middle of a cluster of huge housing project going up. Houses everywhere and all around except towards the parking lot with the Pikes Peak Mountain (Colorado Springs, CO) view in the background where the sun light was also situated. It was a bit risky shooting almost directly into the sun with the subject in between, and even then I had to do a lot of moving around to avoid the houses in the background, as well as cropping.

The mother of this little leaguer liked all the photos so much that she wants to buy the whole 44 images with some made into coffee mugs and print enlargements, etc. I'll see whether she actually orders them or not! :D



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May 22, 2008 17:15 |  #9

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I've got some good ideas for shot locations for baseball if you want to find some good ones.

I've been selling my pics to parents for a few years now.

Oh, please do share your ideas. It's always helpful learning about shot locations for sports that I'm not familiar with. I know what to do when it comes to tennis, soccer, swimming, golf, etc., but not baseball or figure skating (another assignment coming up)...



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May 22, 2008 17:20 as a reply to  @ SYS's post |  #10

#4 the catcher photo is fantastic - good job




  
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#4 the catcher photo is fantastic - good job

Thanks, I appreciate that! :)



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