We were at Gettysburg College and the girls softball team was having tryouts for high school juniors and seniors.
I have never done sports at this level.
I found that being in the dugout on the leftfield side and using a 100-400mm L MII, I was using 260mm-400mm about 95% of the time.
The photo here is at second base and was cropped from a 263mm setting on a 7D cropped camera being equivalent of 420mm.
Two take aways:
1. 70-200mm would be worthless for good closeups in this sort of venue.
2. A camera like the R3 with its AF system including amazing eye AF and tracking would be amazing.
Need to save my pennies up now.
Great shot. Talk about intensity and concentration.
Excellent action photo. Such intensity is caught by the subject and photographer. Mahalo for sharing.
Nice photos, but I must disagree about the lens comment. While shooting a hs baseball game last spring, I got some great action shots from the fence on the first base line with a 55-210 on my Sony.
47greyfox
Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range
Excellent capture! Well done!
Love the image and agree with all the comments. If the image were mine, I'd delete the pole sticking out of her head.
You captured her intensity and the moment!
I'm glad you got those shots.
My experience after two sons and a grandson playing HS baseball is that most of the action shots come within 180 and 300 mm. Being at the fence, your 210 will have many good action shots in range. The point about the lower zoom FL of 70mm, is a well taken issue. I usually portion my time between on the field action shots, and the players individually and the spectators. There can be some very satisfying studies of the Mothers' vicarious emotions when their boy (ya know that 6'4" 230 pounder) gets the hit or makes the play--or doesn't. I either use my 24mm pancake or my 17-70 Zoo on my EOS 77D for those.
Notice that this 3rd base player--I'm guessing, has about as many toes on the ground as a ballet usually dancer does?
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ediesaul wrote:
Love the image and agree with all the comments. If the image were mine, I'd delete the pole sticking out of her head.
Totally agree and that is the next project.
Thx.
I like it much better! And what would you think if you cut some of the top off so we don't see whatever the orange and white things are?
Edie
Now it's a much better photo with the post removed!
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