tshift Loc: Overland Park, KS.

How sharp do you think these are. Thanks

Tom

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CPR Loc: Nature Coast of Florida

Sharp photos but the horizons are uniformly off. I would not crop off feet and bat ends but there is a school of thought that does that.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

They look plenty sharp to me.

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

Tom they are pretty sharp to me. The sharpest is number 2 in my opinion. Straighten the horizontal, otherwise they look good.

raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

Agreed.

tshift Loc: Overland Park, KS.

Thanks raymondh and Jules. Jules I am starting to work on the straightening the photos. Like I said it is me, how I hold camera on monopod and how I look through the lens. I will get it, just my take awhile. Sent email to Todd to get media pass for Kansas 6A baseball championship games. Only going the second day, Friday. They have four games Thursday and then have the 2 playoff games Friday, then a third place game then the Championship game right after that. Damn four games in one day, my legs already hurt and it is still four days away. Gotta do it though. We actually have four of the eight teams that are local. Which hoping for local teams in Championship game. Will let you go. Thanks
Shoot Tight!

Tom

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

All the straightening can be done in Photoshop or Lightroom. You have a bunch of shooting to do. Wish it were me. Good luck.

tshift Loc: Overland Park, KS.

I thought about going over all my galleries but when I straighten photos it takes away to much of the photo for me. Will think about it some more, I think I just need to really work on in camera from now on. Getting ready to go to doc for yearly checkup. A new one. My wife says I should warn him I have run off my last three doctors. Now that I think about it my optometrist is already short timing it. Oh well. Thanks

Tom

CPR Loc: Nature Coast of Florida

Tom,
If you use Photoshop and turn on "Content-Aware" in the crop tool you'll not lose much. I did have to clone in a bit at the end of the bat....

tshift Loc: Overland Park, KS.

[quote=CPR]Tom,
If you use Photoshop and turn on "Content-Aware" in the crop tool you'll not lose much. I did have to clone in a bit at the end of the bat..


I don't do Photoshop. I can hardly do Lightroom, don't know if this old brain could handle learning another program. Thanks CPR for the info.

Tom

CPR Loc: Nature Coast of Florida

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I don't know Tom, I'm just now 75 and it's not nearly as hard as folks would have you believe.
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tshift Loc: Overland Park, KS.

I have to admit I have been thinking about getting Lightroom Classic/Photoshop on the cloud. It would probably take me forever to learn how to go from Lightroom into Photoshop, work on and then go back into Lightroom. I will give it some thought though, almost everyone tells me I really would love Photoshop along with my Lightroom. Some of my friends even say Photoshop is easier to use than Lightroom. Thanks

Tom

chasgroh Loc: Buena Park, CA

...well, it's (PS) really not "easier" to use than LR, at least when you dig down into layers and masks and such, but the *process* of going from one to the other couldn't be easier: right click and select "edit in"...and coming back is simply a matter of saving your work into a PSD (photoshop document), once you do that in PS, go back to LR and there the image is, with all your PS additions/corrections. Let's say you're recovering old slides, there is *so* much you can do in PS that is cleaner and/or unavailable in LR (healing brushes, clone stamp, auto color, etc, etc...) and a case can be made for these functions to be really easily done in Photoshop, so learn from there; before you know it you're using layer masks! Powerful, powerful tools, buddy.

Jules Karney Loc: Las Vegas, Nevada

Hi Tom: Good to hear from ya. I use Photoshop cs6. I use the basic stuff when editing. If I can do it anyone can. I am going to be 73 next year. Remember just the basic stuff. You can do it my friend. Are you still shooting games? I am done for the season until late August.

tshift Loc: Overland Park, KS.

Hey Jules! My season is pretty much over also. I just sent in my last baseball gallery. Was surprised they took most all the photos I sent in. It was the 6A State finals. I actually shot three games total. It had rain out on Thursday and they moved two of the games and the makeup games to Friday. I only shot two of those, was so damn hot and humid and where they made us shoot from was in the open sunlight. They wouldn't let media out on the field or in dugouts at all. Had to shoot from elevated 5 x 8 or 5 x 10 platform on first base side. The first day Thursday when I got there they had people there to make media go to the platform and get up in there. The platforms were 6' off the ground with an aluminum latter which was straight up and down attached to it. Second day I feel getting up and scraped the hell out of my leg. I was already mad because we had to just shoot from there and this didn't help at all. It gets better, Saturday they just had the Championship game because of the rain and they cancelled the 3rd place game. I shot first base side thru four innings and went to third base side for the rest. Top of the seventh last chance to score for team (1-0) game. I thought ok get down and get my 24-85 lens ready to attach to camera to shoot up close and get team/trophy photos. I had been talking to one of the guys that watched who went where the whole time. I was standing by the fence by dugout and he told me I couldn't go on the field until they made sure fans didn't flood the field, they had a problem with that before. He said when they were setting up photos at home plate I could go on the field then. Well as he was saying that I assume his boss walked by and said I could only shoot from the platform not the field. My first thought was I shoot for MaxPreps stay calm.The first day I was there I called the man in charge of high school baseball, we have talked many times before and he said he couldn't help me that was a KU college rules. Well when the boss man started to walk away I told him to come back here please. I told him that my state contact had told me these were KU's rules. He looked at me kinda hard and said NO these were the high schools rules. I almost lost it but I kept my cool. I looked at and told the guy I had been talking to the whole time (well if I can't get onto the field I am out of here, shooting from here won't get me much. I grabbed my bag and camera and hoofed it out of there. This is getting to long sorry. One last thing I set some new camera AF fine tune settings and didn't lookout the photos until games were over, (they looked real good in camera) I will never learn I guess. The focus was way off. The other games I can't get right. Like I said I did salvage enough of finals to get 101 photos on Max. I may shoot some summer high school photos and put on my website, I need the practice apparently. Well Hang in there and shoot tight!! Thanks

Tom