Tigers v. Indians 6/3/07

jennifer

Here's the last in my series of 70-200 f/4L IS baseball shots. Sadly I have to send the lens back to lensrentals.com tomorrow (GREAT service, btw).

While visiting cousins in Cleveland, one of whom has season tickets second row behind the Indian's dugout, I got to watch the Tribe lose spectacularly to Detroit. Thankfully I was only in it for the pictures and not entirely emotionally invested

Again, all shot with a Canon 300D in manual mode. Unfortunately the weather wasn't all that great, although the rain managed to hold off until the 9th inning so I guess that's something. C&C welcomed and appreciated!

Gary Sheffield hit a 2-run bomb in the 1st
1/2500s f/4 ISO 400 166mm


The shot I've been trying to get for a month now... finally a frozen ball!
1/2500s f/4 ISO 400 97mm


Peralta safe with a double
1/2000s f/4 ISO 400 176mm


Trot Nixon eyeing the ump after almost getting hit by a pitch
1/2500s f/4 ISO 800 200mm


Mike Rouse fouling one off
1/3200s f/4 ISO 400 111mm


Detroit pitcher Jeremy Bonderman
1/3200s f/4 ISO 400 150mm


Thanks for looking!

SDJames

Well done! Great seats for great shooting opportunity. I'm gonna have to check out the lensrental.
This is as close as I have come to a professional frozen ball :cry ...


That's my boy!

jennifer

Looks like a future Hall of Famer to me!

I can't say enough about Roger and lensrentals.com Great guy, great service. Very flexible as well. I would highly recommend them to anyone wanting to try before you buy.

dbaker1221

fantastic set

Vince

jennifer wrote:

Here's the last in my series of 70-200 f/4L IS baseball shots. Sadly I have to send the lens back to lensrentals.com tomorrow (GREAT service, btw).

While visiting cousins in Cleveland, one of whom has season tickets second row behind the Indian's dugout, I got to watch the Tribe lose spectacularly to Detroit. Thankfully I was only in it for the pictures and not entirely emotionally invested

Again, all shot with a Canon 300D in manual mode. Unfortunately the weather wasn't all that great, although the rain managed to hold off until the 9th inning so I guess that's something. C&C welcomed and appreciated!

Gary Sheffield hit a 2-run bomb in the 1st
1/2500s f/4 ISO 400 166mm


The shot I've been trying to get for a month now... finally a frozen ball!
1/2500s f/4 ISO 400 97mm


Peralta safe with a double
1/2000s f/4 ISO 400 176mm


Trot Nixon eyeing the ump after almost getting hit by a pitch
1/2500s f/4 ISO 800 200mm


Mike Rouse fouling one off
1/3200s f/4 ISO 400 111mm


Detroit pitcher Jeremy Bonderman
1/3200s f/4 ISO 400 150mm


Thanks for looking!

Very nice set , Jennifer. Your photos really have great contrast and pop. Do you do anything in particular in post processing?

jerryr

Good job Jennifer - I am from Detroit - love the last one of Bonderman pitching jr

Dbl

Really nice work Jennifer. Excellent PP work to go with the good timing on these, just the right amount of saturation and sharpening. Thanks for sharing these shots.

DJ-S1

Wow, that's a shot and a half! Excellent!

jennifer

Vince wrote:

Very nice set , Jennifer. Your photos really have great contrast and pop. Do you do anything in particular in post processing?

I don't do a whole lot. As Dbl noted, just some saturation and sharpening. The 70-200 f/4L is so incredible, it really doesn't require a whole lot to get great shots. Just good timing and a little luck. Of course seats behind the dugout don't hurt either

swintonphoto

Great shots. Too bad the Indians lost - that is worth crying about:cry

jennifer

jerryr wrote:

Good job Jennifer - I am from Detroit - love the last one of Bonderman pitching jr

Sorry, Jerry... but I had to do it

johng

jennifer wrote:

Sorry, Jerry... but I had to do it

Nice one!

Nice series of the pros. I haven't made it to the Jake yet this year but might be going on Fathers Day.

Would really love tickets to one of the Finals games. The Cavs impressed me against Detroit and I think this will be a better series than the pundits believe - I see 6 games.

Maestro

Great shots Jennifer of my favorite sport. I love the frozen ball on the bat!

zoomer

Very nice.
That Sizemore shot is sweet.
Did you take these through the screen? Just curious form where you are seems like there would be a screen and these look so sharp.
Shots are spot on for color and your timing was perfect on most of these shots.
Well done!

jennifer

zoomer wrote:

Very nice.
That Sizemore shot is sweet.
Did you take these through the screen? Just curious form where you are seems like there would be a screen and these look so sharp.
Shots are spot on for color and your timing was perfect on most of these shots.
Well done!

Actually we were just to the immediate left of the screen. Had we been one section over to our right, we would have likely been behind it. It was perfect!