softball

dbaker1221

first time with sigma 2.8 200 in sunlight! I did fair..I found that my meter said it was dark but with the black jerseys I blew some faces out. so I'll shoot -.7 or -1 next time more than I did this time.
I did get to try my bigma 500mm from over the outfield wall though. It was a bit tougher to shoot in a gusty wind.

Skippy

dbaker1221 wrote:

first time with sigma 2.8 200 in sunlight! I did fair..I found that my meter said it was dark but with the black jerseys I blew some faces out. so I'll shoot -.7 or -1 next time more than I did this time.
I did get to try my bigma 500mm from over the outfield wall though. It was a bit tougher to shoot in a gusty wind.

Wow I'm impressed the catcher doesn't have her eyes shut
Good Series ... Skippy
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JESTER

I think you did better than fair. They look great to me. Nice crisp and clear. You even stopped the ball. I like the people in the background in the first photo. It shows you what they will go thru to watch a game. Really good action in the last photo.

dbaker1221

JESTER wrote:

I think you did better than fair. They look great to me. Nice crisp and clear. You even stopped the ball. I like the people in the background in the first photo. It shows you what they will go thru to watch a game. Really good action in the last photo.

Thanks....it was about 40 degrees with a strong wind. the outfielders kept one hand in their back pocket.

johng

Dave,

Last one is a real keeper. I would suggest cropping down tighter to the action though as you have a lot of dead space around the frame but the timing was right on the money.

dbaker1221

johng wrote:

Dave,

Last one is a real keeper. I would suggest cropping down tighter to the action though as you have a lot of dead space around the frame but the timing was right on the money.

thanks...I didn't crop close because the school might buy some & I have no idea what size they may want.

How does everybody else get around that?

RandySmugMug

nice work Dave, great action captures

i would set ev down to -.3 or -.7 to avoid the hot spots
watch the saturations on the colors
open the aperture more on the busy backgrounds

dbaker1221

RandySmugMug wrote:

nice work Dave, great action captures

i would set ev down to -.3 or -.7 to avoid the hot spots
watch the saturations on the colors
open the aperture more on the busy backgrounds

Thanks Randy...
looks like I'll have to wait til next week to work on it.. 2-8 inches of snow is comming.

Some of these came out over saturated whitout me touching them , I didn't know if it was me being unfamiliar with the lens?

winger

dbaker1221 wrote:

Thanks Randy...
looks like I'll have to wait til next week to work on it.. 2-8 inches of snow is comming.

Dont you just love duluth!