Nice shots Eric and great advice!
Advice on setting for shooting little league baseball
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Posted 9 months ago #
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Bland said:
Nice shots Eric and great advice!+1. And it doesn't look like a shorter lens is going to help you out any. I personally would work with what you have and you have some room to crop like Eric showed. I really think the 300 F4 is the next step up and they run around $1100 used, but I love mine.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Looks great Eric.I just posted a couple unedited shots just to show where i'm at. Any shots I get prints of I edit with Photo Elements 10. Just not as good as yours. Nice job.
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@rbk35 - I think you are getting great images. In the event that you weren't already cropping, I tossed in the example...I hope I didn't step on your toes...That shot of yours has great expressions and tells a nice story. I think that the challenge is that the next step in lenses is a little pricey. The question is what you want from your photos. The 55-300 @ 300 is (I think) basically a f/5.6 lens. A faster lens would give you higher shutter speeds and better subject isolation, which might be good for this angle. On the other hand if you move to take fielding shots, f/5.6 is fine. For the money, the tcole1983's suggestion of the 300 f/4 makes a lot of sense. Its a sharp lens and will provide a better cropped image than the 55-300 IMHO. Having said that a lot of folks shoot baseball with the 70-200 and are quite happy with the results. With the 70-200 you get that nice low light capability and great isolation when you want it. Also, from my experience the 80-400 might really be a viable choice for baseball. For me the best shots almost always occur when I am anticipating the play and am already focused. Whereas for action shots my fastest focusing lenses are sometimes not fast enough (when I handle them, someone else might do better). So the 80-400 might be a reasonable way to get more reach, but won't really improve isolation. It's really a tough call. I think your shots are great, the question is which way would you like to see them go.
Here's a shot taken with the 24-70:
Nikon D3S, ISO 2500, f/2.8 @ 1/640s, Nikon 24-70 @24mmPosted 9 months ago # -
Thanks Eric for all the help. Not stepping on my toes, I posted the shots for suggestions. I am happy with the daylight shots I am getting and will continue to try to improve. Night games will be the tough ones with this lens.Good thing most of his games are during the day :)
Posted 9 months ago # -
At night I would suggest taking some shots early with different ISOs to see what is usable and how high you need to go. Get it keyed in before hand so you don't have to mess with that when you are shooting. Good luck!
Posted 9 months ago # -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/85968878@N06/7880822132/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/85968878@N06/7880837256/in/photostream
Before and after editing. How do they look?Posted 8 months ago # -
I think your getting the hang of it.
Well done Eric. That's what it's all about. Helping people.
Posted 8 months ago # -
@rbk35 - Looking good! I am not familiar with Photo Elements 10, but something else I do is try and adjust the black point so that I get a deep black somewhere in the image. In Lightroom this is done quickly with a slider. It is often an effective way to give images a bit more pop. ... You are going to make some parents very happy!
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