Some Baseball: Arizona Fall League with 7D

Coach21 wrote in post #9030210
Awesome!

I just bought but won't get until this Friday (en route) my 7D and 70-200 f/2.8 IS plus the 1.4 EF II from B&H just for baseball.

Great Shots by the way.

Did you have field access?

How do you like Noiseware?

Settings on Camera?

Daryl Jones is a local boy for me by the way, he's from the Houston area. Spoke to his Mom a few times awhile back concerning a hammy that was bothering him. I'm glad to see that he's doing well. My son told me that Baseball America did a feature on him several months ago.

Thanks for sharing I hope you have a chance to answer my questions.

Budding Baseball Photographer,

Andy

Thank you, Andy!
You are going to love the 7D for sports! That's cool about Daryl Jones. I had a list with me of "20 Players To Watch" and he was on there. I tried to shoot most of those guys.

To answer your questions:

I did not have field access, but the games were only attended by between 150-600 people and are general admission ($6). Consequently, you can get a front row seat in literally any section at any point during the game. I mostly spent a couple of innings behind the net, some behind the on-deck circles and some behind the dugouts.

I'm liking noiseware but I really need to read the documentation because I just started playing with it. I went blind reading about the relative merits of noise ninja, neat image, etc. so I just picked one. I do most of my processing in lightroom and just use PSE for unsharp mask so I wound up getting the noiseware PSE plugin.

Here's the EXIF info. I will put it above the individual photos as well.
Keep in mind that I was using a non-reporting 1.4x TC on and off during the day (I broke my Kenko Teleplus 300 while I was packing :cry. Consequently, some of the focal lengths may not be accurate and some apertures may be off 1 stop.

1. Sigma 120-300 f3.5 1/3200 120mm ISO 200
2. Sigma 120-300 f3.5 1/1600 300mm ISO 250
3. Sigma 120-300 f3.5 1/3200 300mm ISO 400
4. Sigma 120-300 f3.5 1/3200 300mm ISO 200
5. Sigma 120-300 f3.2 1/3200 234mm ISO 200
6. Sigma 120-300 f2.8 1/800 120mm ISO 2500
7. Sigma 120-300 f2.8 1/640 300mm ISO 2500
8. Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS f2.8 1/500 140mm ISO 1600
9. Sigma 120-300 f3.2 1/6400 274mm ISO 200
10. Sigma 120-300 f2.8 1/4000 120mm ISO 200
11. Sigma 120-300 f2.8 1/3200 234mm ISO 200

I hadn't checked before, so I'm actually surprised that I took all but one of these with my Sigma. I love that lens but a couple of these just had that "feel" of the 70-200 - especially #1 and #10. Since you said you have a 70-200 on the way, I dug out another shot with the 70-200 on the 7D just for you (at the risk of the thread police giving me a beatdown):

12. Ike Davis and Ruben Tejada
Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS f2.8 1/5000 105mm ISO 200

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OCcME wrote in post #9030796
amazing...

Thank you!!

clark.moeller wrote in post #9030456
First snap is great, grand work!

Thanks - #1 is my favorite as well. Here is the companion shot to that one. No ball, but I love the "falling off" of the pitcher:

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Thank you for the information and inspiration!

Andy

Coach21 wrote in post #9036610
Thank you for the information and inspiration!

Andy

No problem, Andy. Thanks for looking.
Rest of the (still evolving) set is here if you are interested:
http://joshuasarner.sm​ugmug.com …760_yT6Vz#71318​4080_xyuoU

Colors/focus is good but the angles and framing/cropping needs work....way too many backsides or making the hitter look bad shots.

BTW, it's illegal to sell unlicensed photos from the AFL/MLB so you should really take the sales options off your smuggie site for any pro sports.

MJPhotos24 wrote in post #9046534
Colors/focus is good but the angles and framing/cropping needs work....way too many backsides or making the hitter look bad shots.

BTW, it's illegal to sell unlicensed photos from the AFL/MLB so you should really take the sales options off your smuggie site for any pro sports.

Thanks for the advice (both artistic and legal). I will look for better angles as I continue to process - I have a long way to go, I shot 4 games in 2 days.