Last of baseball for awhile....

Shot a tournament last weekend, will be the last baseball until cooperstown Labor Day weekend.

This kid made it so easy - I wonder why some kids are so much easier than others to shoot? Hope I'm improving. (BTW shot with 120-300).

Thanks for looking.

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Us lefties have a way of doing that

Only complaint I have is the framing - the top one too much dead space on top and his foot is cut off, second one looks better from behind the catcher usually but you can't always get back there - looks kinda tilted ,which it may be - never know with baseball fences. They are better....and cooperstown is a cool field to shoot at, background wise.

MJPhotos24 wrote in post #6077738
Only complaint I have is the framing - the top one too much dead space on top and his foot is cut off, second one looks better from behind the catcher usually but you can't always get back there - looks kinda tilted ,which it may be - never know with baseball fences. They are better....and cooperstown is a cool field to shoot at, background wise.

Second one looks pretty straight to me, at least from the infield dirt.

Thanks guys. First shot was cropped to a 4 x 5 ratio, I tried hard, but that was the best crop I can do (since I think the parents will undoubtedly want an 8 x 10 of that shot). I will try again though.

Second one, I think the path of the ball is throwing that off perhaps? I am having difficulty keeping horizons straight, no doubt about that. This is a reoccuring theme - and I'm trying hard to pinpoint what I'm doing wrong with that. I'm pretty sure my camera and lens is straight when I am focusing on the subject at the moment the shot is taken. There has to be something I'm doing wrong. I half suspect that the monopod I am using (a manfretto 680B) is no longer cutting the mustard since I acquired the 120-300 (is shake getting involved throwing off the horizon?), but I am not entirely sure yet. I don't seem to have this same difficulty with the 70-200 on the 680b (keeping a straight shot), so although I am leaning in that direction, I still have to try to figure if there is some other error on my part before plunking down lots of cash on a gitzo.

Pat

I just used the fence and the top of the window and it is off a bit...but in baseball that happens a LOT so you use the wall to "straighten" it even though you may not be actually straightening it, just the wall makes it look that way. Kid should be in the center with crop room on the outside that will be behind the frame...not sure how close you actually were with the original image.

The monopod is good, I have a very similar one with a 300 Canon and no problems at all. It really is just getting used to it and paying attention more often while shooting, least for me it was. Also if it wasn't for cropping a LOT of mine would be off but thats why you leave crop space when shooting.

Small example, and you have to be a perfectionalist to notice...but you can see the original is slightly off.

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I think the viewfinder of the 30d has a lot to do with that. Unless you've got your eyeball jammed all the way up against it, it's tough to tell if you're level.

.47 degrees, according to the straighten tool in PSP X2