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Apr 21, 2012 13:13:24 #
I went to the the ball park to work on taking action pictures in low light. (Still need more practice and a faster lens.) I positioned myself by squatting down just around the corner of the fence so I had an unobstructed view of the batter. I had 3/4 of my body behind the fence and the just enough around the corner to get my camera and arms a clear shot.
Wouldn't you know it, a foul ball is hit directly in my direction and hits me on my left wrist which was supporting the lens! Another few inches higher and it would have hit the lens directly. I was lucky? enough to get a picture of the ball heading towards me. I never saw it. I estimate that the ball was probably going between 75-80 mph.
Apart from a tender wrist and small abrasion, no harm done! Of course the batter is my son.
Wouldn't you know it, a foul ball is hit directly in my direction and hits me on my left wrist which was supporting the lens! Another few inches higher and it would have hit the lens directly. I was lucky? enough to get a picture of the ball heading towards me. I never saw it. I estimate that the ball was probably going between 75-80 mph.
Apart from a tender wrist and small abrasion, no harm done! Of course the batter is my son.
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Apr 21, 2012 13:17:54 #
Very very lucky. Could have been worse, could have been the lens or camera. :thumbup:
Apr 21, 2012 13:25:54 #
i remember covering ferris state college football games with my dad and getting hit by cornerbacks safteies or wide recievers who couldnt stop in time. ouch then and ouch now just thinking about it.
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Apr 21, 2012 13:29:32 #
WOW that was aclose call.. Did his team win?
JSinger61 wrote:
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Apr 21, 2012 15:34:55 #
tlbuljac wrote:
WOW that was aclose call.. Did his team win?
Yes, 8-6. They play again tonight!
Apr 21, 2012 15:56:25 #
I see NOTHING wrong with your low light action shooting. But I haven't even gotten good enough to accurately be called amateur yet so what do I know. :)
Although I think I would have cropped about 20% off the right and 5% off the bottom. Again that is just what is pleasing to my very inexperienced eyes.
Although I think I would have cropped about 20% off the right and 5% off the bottom. Again that is just what is pleasing to my very inexperienced eyes.
Apr 21, 2012 16:19:19 #
PatrickTheCop wrote:
I see NOTHING wrong with your low light action shooting. But I haven't even gotten good enough to accurately be called amateur yet so what do I know. :)
Although I think I would have cropped about 20% off the right and 5% off the bottom. Again that is just what is pleasing to my very inexperienced eyes.
Although I think I would have cropped about 20% off the right and 5% off the bottom. Again that is just what is pleasing to my very inexperienced eyes.
This was one of the better shots. I am using a D7000 with a 18-200 mm lens at 90mm and settings of ISO 1600, f/5.3, 1/50. Way to slow to stop any kind of action on a ball field. Then there was some exposure compensation done in a quick and dirty PP.
I looked at cropping and did not like it. I liked the wider view, even with the bags in the background, because it gave a better perspective about where the ball is and where it is going in relationship to where it was suppose to go! Of course there are a ton of things I can do in PP to make the photo better, but then that was not the point of this post! :D
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Apr 21, 2012 16:26:56 #
Good point about the crop. On second look, with your comment in mind, I do believe you are right - it does help the perspective on the ball flight. Well explained sir!
Apr 21, 2012 19:16:52 #
I think your son was getting back at you for all those time-outs you gave him :thumbup:
Apr 21, 2012 19:36:56 #
Lesson learned, watch for foul balls. Nice photo. Glad to hear it wasn't worse.
Apr 22, 2012 13:36:48 #
Somethings wrong with this picture and I don't mean the photo. I shoot baseball for the newspaper and a area baseball magazine and I have a game this afternoon. It is totally cloudy and using a Tamron 18-270mm lens extended to full length I did a light check. At ISO 400 I could get a SS of 1/500s and f7.1. This should be a good enough SS to stop action and give good DOF. If I push the ISO to 800 I can get a SS in excess of 1/1200 at f8---enough to stop any action. Not sure what you're doing but if you're at the ISO you say you're using you should be able to stop anything that moves and you'll be dealing with some noise because of that high ISO......
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Apr 22, 2012 15:41:30 #
Apr 22, 2012 16:22:04 #
Your son hmm. Was he aiming?
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Apr 24, 2012 01:32:04 #
kegler
Loc: N. E. Indiana
You were very lucky. I was coaching batting practice, standing close to 1st base, on the line. Someone had said something to me and I looked around to answer them when I heard the crack of the bat. Wellll, I turned back just in time to catch one square in the mouth. Put me down on my knees real quick. And yes, it was my son.
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