HS baseball
I've just been uploading all my pictures to smugmug (just signed up) and figured I'd post some here. These are some of my high school's baseball team I took for the yearbook.
Let me know what you think!
There is a reason why they're all of the same guy. I was there to shoot him, we needed a picture of him for the story so I pretty much focused only on him but did get a few almost decent ones of other players.
Let me know what you think!
There is a reason why they're all of the same guy. I was there to shoot him, we needed a picture of him for the story so I pretty much focused only on him but did get a few almost decent ones of other players.
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In general though, it's best to shoot from field level - both these shots were looking down (were you on top of the dugout by chance?)
It's just shooting at his level or up allows for more face to be visible:
On the last photo, there are 2 issues which hurt an otherwise very sharp photo:
1. Unerexposed - bump the exposure up a bit and dodge his face so you can see more of his features. In general with baseball you need to overexpose by +1/3 to +2/3 to help decrease shadows. That's just a general guideline though - the rule is really: expose for the face, not the uniform. This shot doesn't look close to blowing highlights so you have a good bit of lattitude to adjust (or the next time your shooting to push the exposure to the right).
2. Crop - really, all 3 have the same issue and that is your subject is square in the middle of every frame. In shots 1 & 2, leave more room in front of the picture to give him "space to throw into". In the third, think of the rule of thirds - given the way his eyes are looking I would suggest moving him over towards the left of the frame
The background also hurts this shot - but not a lot you can do about that - except in the future use a wider aperture if you have it, more zoom and back yourself up even more to create more distance to your subject. You can get a little more blur that way, but there's only so much you can do with the backstop limiting how much focal length you can use:
Hey, thanks for the comments and suggestions! I was shooting from ontop of the dugout (well a hill behind the dugout). The only reason I shot from there is because the umps wouldn't let me on the field (safety hazard) and shooting through the fence just wasn't working for me. Hopefully next time I get a chance to shoot baseball I'll be allowed to shoot from the field or at least have a spot not covered by a fence.
again, thanks for your sugestions, I'll keep them in mind for next time!
Next time that happens try and cajole them to let you shoot from the dugout - if not, nothing you can do. Even shooting for a paper I was relegated to the dugout one game for "safety reasons" - of course in the 3rd inning a foul ball came screaming into the dugout right at me - missed me, but so much for safety