Tonights double header

[JSPhoto]

A few from tonights double header. The first a diving catch by the right fielder. The pitching shots should be obvious and then the last is a kid who has hit a total of two homeruns in two seasons, both against the same team. This was as he headed home on a double, making sure he hit third base.

JS

[BamaMike]

Very nice
Mike

[Old Timer]

Hey that diving catch shot is right on. Very nice catch on that one. That's not an easy shot to get unless you just happen to be following a certain fielder. Where were you positioned and what was it taken with?

[JSPhoto]

Thanks OT and Mike,

Well OT it was shot with the 28-300mm USM IS on the MKII N. I was on the first base side. I was actually focused on the batter, about 25 feet from home base and just swung around and zoomed out and focused at the same time basically following the ball, not the fielder and basically got lucky when they met. The fielder was around 200 feet away from me. This was a major crop which seems to have come out OK. I showed it to him when he came in and his jaw dropped. Later I showed it to his parents and they want a copy. The ball had just hit glove and he hadn't gotten the glove closed yet, my first diving catch in 5 years.

I decided I was getting bored already shooting batters and decided to go for fielding for a change....and it was only my second and third games of the season...
Froze my butt off though. The first games was 20-1 and I left the second when the score was 10-0.

But, I still like my pitching shots, just the way I like to get them with the ball just leaving the finger tips

JS

[livin4lax09]

the focus is off on the first shot, and would have been better if it was a split second earlier, when he wasn't touching the ground. The timing is good on the pitchers, but they are dark, and the composition is wrong. You're not leading them at all. They have nowhere to go in the photo. It's like runners, you need to put something in front of them so they have some space to run into.