T & I baseball pictures

mariethomas

I am going to be doing outside T & I baseball pictures for a few teams, I haven't done this before and I was concerned about shadows on the face from the baseball hat and what I can do to avoid this. I will be using a Nikon D80 with a SB-600 speedlight. Any suggestions/advice would be great. Thanks!

slipkid

I think using the fill flash mode would reduce the shadows.

nipprdog

Mount the flash below, or away from the camera.

donek

Since I only really shoot action sports, I'm not 100% sure what T & I means. I'm assuming its some sort of portrait abbreviation. If you're trying to get light up under their hats and you can't get the flash off the camera, shoot from a low perspective. Low perspectives always work better for sports images anyway. Your other option is a reflector (buy one, or get some white posterboard). You can also shoot when the sun is low in the sky. I thought this was always best for portraiture anyway.

Art Scott

mariethomas wrote:

I am going to be doing outside T & I baseball pictures for a few teams, I haven't done this before and I was concerned about shadows on the face from the baseball hat and what I can do to avoid this. I will be using a Nikon D80 with a SB-600 speedlight. Any suggestions/advice would be great. Thanks!

Donek......T&I = Team & Individuals (Memory Mates)

If the kids are really small you will find yourself shooting from a kneeling position to keep shadows off the faces.....for short kids I lower my tripod so that camera center focus point hits subject on nose....you do not want that shooting down look......I also tip the hat back just a little....and a little goes a long ways.......
I shoot with camera and flash either on a flash bracket ( one that the camera rotates and not the flash) or the flash is mounted to a light stand....before I got a proper adapter to do it correctly I just duck taped or used plastic cable straps to hole to light stand and used a 20-30 foot pc cord......now I wouldn't get close to my equipment with duck tape {only Gaffers....more expensive but leaves no gunky residue behind} and I would only use a radio Frequency Slave trigger to fire the flash....no pc cord for anyone to trip over..............for T&I I do find having the flash on a light stand works best for me....but then I was shooting literally from sunrise to sunset non stop with a potty break of 5 mins every 4-6 hours.......we would shoot all the various baseball, basketball ,football or soccer leagues and teams in one day.......