Juniors baseball

[CanonFan]

I shot this from behind the backstop about 2 inches from the ground....

[Photo-John]

Great timing and I love the eyes and concentration on the pitcher's face. Did you shoot this with a compact camera or a digital SLR? The reason I ask is that I think there's too much depth-of-field and the background is distracting. Less depth-of-field would allow us to really focus on the pitcher and strengthen the image a lot. Looks like it's been oversharpened a bit, too. But it's a really good picture, regardless.

[CanonFan]

It was shot with a Canon S3 compact digital. I didn't do any image manipulation other than cropping and reducing the size to fit the 800x800 size restriction.

I wish I had more control over the DOF - I believe I shot this "wide open".

[SmartWombat]

Yeah, I'm finding the same with the G9, the short focal length is great for landscapes, but less useful in other circumstances because of the wide DoF.