Compression "BoB" shot

nipprdog

D300, 300f2.8 1.4 TC

ian408

Sweet!

Except for the background, it's a great shot. But not a lot you can do about that given the field.

pathfinder

You can always select the batter, and blur the background a bit, if you have the time. The selection can be done better on the full size image - this was the small file displayed here on dgrin.

sportsshooter06

Did you use fill flash on this shot, the batter looks like he was lighted up.

Nice shot, however.

nipprdog

ian408 wrote:

Sweet!

Except for the background, it's a great shot. But not a lot you can do about that given the field.

Thanks, Ian.

nipprdog

pathfinder wrote:

You can always select the batter, and blur the background a bit, if you have the time. The selection can be done better on the full size image - this was the small file displayed here on dgrin.

Looks good. Did you use gaussian(sp?) blur?

nipprdog

sportsshooter06 wrote:

Did you use fill flash on this shot, the batter looks like he was lighted up.

Nice shot, however.

Thanks. No flash was used. The sun was low, though.

pathfinder

nipprdog wrote:

Looks good. Did you use gaussian(sp?) blur?

Yes, after duplicating the batter on a layer. The layer blurred with GB, needs to be below the copy of the batter so that the margins are sharp, and not blurrred.

I described the steps in Photoshop in this thread

Once you have the subject isolated from the background on layers, it is easy to have different curves for each of them also.

nipprdog

Thanks, PF.