The Greenville Phillies were on fire today! The season opener against the Greenville Cubs will go down in our record books as one of our fastest victories...16-1 in 3 innings! I took over 100 pictures, and I was very far away. I had to work my way around looking through the chain link to get anything, and my camera doesn't have a zoom, so this one has been cropped A LOT to get in close. I was so SURPISED to see the ball right there, about to hit our catcher's glove! I know it's not Sports Illustrated, but for moms like me, it's priceless. After cropping, I adjusted the basic levels and added the border in Photoshop.
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Nice getting the ball in the picture. Could be a little sharper and I would nix the big border. It takes away from the picute and the eye keeps going to it and not the shot
Nice stop action. The red boarder seems a little distracting from the action in the photo. Leaving a simple white boarder might have been a little more subtle and less harsh.
Wow, catching the ball like that takes practice & luck!
Photo is a bit soft, and I definitley don't like the frame. I guess the colour matches the sox & catcher, but they aren't the subject.
a great action shot, catching the ball at just that moment. I don't care much for the border though and I wish I could see the batter's face a bit better.
How can this be serendipity? if the aim of baseball for the pitcher is to get a strike and he does this through normal means, then how can this be an accidental discovery?
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