Gave my first attempt at shooting baseball. Learned quite a bit. First off, you want to shoot at nothing slower than 1/2000 and 2nd, when you are shooting kids playing tball, don’t stand behind the kid catching the ball. I had to bail out of a shot and stumbled and dropped my camera. Good thing I was only like a foot off the ground when it hit, and i had my lens hood on. Gave a function check and everything seemed to work just fine. Went the rest of the day shooting even better than what I was before. Maybe dropping the camera made my shots better. I saw another photographer there, that was contracted to shoot the games there. If I had to guess, judging on how huge his lens was, and how his camera was shooting at about 10fps, he had about $7k in gear. I guess little league baseball photography pays good.
Apr 162011