Contact......

[JSPhoto]

JS, that is some awesome timing my friend. Some of us could probably spend a day out there and never get one dead on. I want to see you try golf swings next...

Thanks

It's not all that hard.....honest! Actually it's pretty difficult when you can't see the pitcher, and since for these I am on the pitchers left I can't see her, so I time it off the catcher and the batter after watching the pitcher take warmups where I time them in my head, then it's the combination of catcher and batter to know when the pitch is coming. From the other side I have one eye looking through the viewfinder and the other watching the pitcher.

No offense but.....
You won't get me anywhere near a golf course. well, unless the club house was on fire.......

JS

[brmill26]

It's not all that hard.....honest!

Hmm, well I'll have to take your word on that, but seeing as I rarely see any "contact" photos, I think there might be a bit of skill in it. The look is awesome though. :thumbsup:

No offense but.....
You won't get me anywhere near a golf course. well, unless the club house was on fire.......

lol, none taken! Coincidentally, the local club house here actually did burn down just a few months ago. I think there were some teenagers playing with fire on the roof that caught the tar on fire or something strange like that.

[JSPhoto]

Hmm, well I'll have to take your word on that, but seeing as I rarely see any "contact" photos, I think there might be a bit of skill in it. The look is awesome though. :thumbsup:



lol, none taken! Coincidentally, the local club house here actually did burn down just a few months ago. I think there were some teenagers playing with fire on the roof that caught the tar on fire or something strange like that.

Brad,
Well I guess you can call the timing skill, but seriously it's all in the timing, knowing the pitchers normal routine from windup to release and the speed they normally pitch, how long it takes the ball to get to the plate and the area the batter should make contact. High school kids are pretty predictable, and that helps a lot, they don't get out of their comfort zone, which plays into my hand. Even batters have timing, and it doesn't change much at all.

Ooopppssss.... I wasn't around there, haven't been South of Nashville in many years

JS

[JSPhoto]

Brad,
Thought I'd throw these in too, both done by timing things to show it isn't just hitting that takes timing to get contact, but the pitcher just releasing the ball and a foul tip almost caught by the catcher. I was actually late on that one but got lucky in that the ball is in the glove at that moment I did shoot. The first pitcher shot was through the fence behind home plate, the other from the press box. These were last week.

JS