Had a company picnic at a Camden River Sharks gave yesterday. We were right above home plate. Shot this with the telephoto extension.
Post: Crop. Healed two small white areas, one in the green and one in the dirt. Layer adjustments for levels, brightness/contrast and hue/saturation. Sharpen. Crop again. Resize. Sharpen.
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Place: 123 out of 158 Avg (all users): 5.0292 Avg (commenters): 6.8750 Avg (participants): 4.7586 Avg (non-participants): 5.1681 Views since voting: 718 Views during voting: 279 Votes: 171 Comments: 11 Favorites: 0
First off let me tell you I love baseball so right off the bat you have me especially since this image is so vivid in color and is super sharp! But I must find faults especially since you scored only a 5.02 which I think makes this terribly underrated, IMO.
Ok, the aspect of heat in this challenge was probably in dispute by many voters or they simply didn't understand the sports reference. In any case to help with the idea here I think you should have used a slightly slower shutter speed so you get more motion blur on the ball to convey speed. Also, like one of the commenters mentioned a swinging bat would have helped greatly. Assuming you were there for the whole game you probably could have caught an image like that. Speaking of which if you combine more motion blur and a swinging bat you would have achieved your goal of capturing that baseball heater to the max. Another good shot of this could have been a pitch inside where the hitter leans back. Obviously that's a tougher one to capture since you'd probably have to be shooting on just about every pitch to get the one like that. Anyway, just a thought.
A beautiful shot. An interesting take on the challenge. A term that is commonly used in baseball, but rarely "visualized" I think. Hey Mikey, I think I like it!
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