The batter is from the Brewster Whitehats of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He's just hit a mighty shot, and this was the moment he realized it went foul.
Players reactions can be good shots. Showing emotion helps tell the story. There are, however, a number of elements that detract in this photo:
1. His feet are cut off. Try to avoid cutting off feet - try to crop above the knees or above the waist itself.
2. The player, himself is not sharp. This may be a combination of focus being off but also using a shutter speed that is too slow - 1/250. I see you were only using ISO 400, so my suggestion in the next outing is move up to 800 or 1600 as needed to get faster shutter speeds.
3. Framing. To my mind if your intention was to highlight the emotional response, the players in the dugout don't add anything to the image. So a tighter framing on the subject with those players out of the frame would be a stronger image.
4. DOF - there's too much. The players and dugout are a bit too distracting. It's tough to shoot at f5.6 and eliminate those distracting backgrounds. So, if baseball is going to be a sport you want to shoot going forward you should look into a faster lens.
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Players reactions can be good shots. Showing emotion helps tell the story. There are, however, a number of elements that detract in this photo:
1. His feet are cut off. Try to avoid cutting off feet - try to crop above the knees or above the waist itself.
2. The player, himself is not sharp. This may be a combination of focus being off but also using a shutter speed that is too slow - 1/250. I see you were only using ISO 400, so my suggestion in the next outing is move up to 800 or 1600 as needed to get faster shutter speeds.
3. Framing. To my mind if your intention was to highlight the emotional response, the players in the dugout don't add anything to the image. So a tighter framing on the subject with those players out of the frame would be a stronger image.
4. DOF - there's too much. The players and dugout are a bit too distracting. It's tough to shoot at f5.6 and eliminate those distracting backgrounds. So, if baseball is going to be a sport you want to shoot going forward you should look into a faster lens.
Keep at it!