Comments on: Shooting Major League Baseball

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:43:10 +0000

Scott -
Awesome shots! Thanks for sharing.
I just have two questions that I hope you will be gracious enough to answer

1. In the 4th and 6th shots posted, the batter appears to be still, while there is a bit of motion blur in the bat itself. You said that you shot most of these at around 1/1250th of a second…. Was the motion blur on the bat photoshopped, or was it really being swung that fast?

2. Did you set your Nikon D3 into DX mode, so that your lens acted as a 300-600mm? Or did you use FX mode for the higher resolution and other benefits?

Kinda random questions.. but I was very curious. Thanks.

By: Feras Malallah

Feras Malallah — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:45:10 +0000

great ones Scott, but one Q, what format you shot, RAW or JPEG?

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By: Paulo Jordao Photography

Paulo Jordao Photography — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:31:42 +0000

Hey Scott. I hope you had a great time shooting the game, even with the heat.
What lens was that? 500mm?

By: Lewis Woodyard

Lewis Woodyard — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:18:21 +0000

Hi Scott: Knowing that you don’t have the opportunity to shoot a MLB game all the time, just curious as to how many frames you fired. My guess for a 9 inning game you had at least a feature length film of frames.
Do you have an estimate?

By: Eugene

Eugene — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:40:15 +0000

Nice photos, Scott. Did you have a chance to do any wide-angle shots of Turner Field? (by chance, here’’s one of my favourite shots of Turner Field which I captured: http://elbelbelb2000.blogtog.com/archives/6297_1579073640/154929).

It’s a bummer about the five inch limit for the lenses which we may bring to Turner Field. That means the security will now give me a hard time about bringing in my Canon 100mm macro lens to the game…

By: Bob Ianson

Bob Ianson — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:16:40 +0000

Timely comment Scott!
I was at the Seattle Cleveland game this past weekend.and had my 100-400 out and was shooting from the stands. The usher came down and asked me what size lens I was using. I told her and she pulled out this rule book of some sort and it said lens longer than 100-200 were not permitted. I told a white lie and said “yes…that’s what this is”. She then asked if the shots were for personal use.

This was the first time there was an issue but it looks like time are changing.

And by the way….I am not selling shots, just trying to improve my skills. Wish mine were as sharp as yous Scotts.

By: Ron Mandsager

Ron Mandsager — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:49:47 +0000

I’ll second Janine Smith’s post - I struggle w/ the same issue in Lightroom - its great that Lightroom backs up photos to an external drive during download from the card, but frustrating that it doesn’t keep track of those backup images. Maybe we’re asking too much, but sure would be nice. Would creating a 2nd catalog pointing to the images on the backup drive work?

Great photos, by the way - I’m envious!

By: Alfredo G

Alfredo G — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:08:19 +0000

The best sport shots I’ve ever see ! They are simply stunning!
Scott,
did you use your seven-points method here?

Regards,
Alfredo

By: eugene

eugene — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:32:41 +0000

Hey Scott,

Great Great shots, all of them are sharp and nicely taken. Oannot wait to see what you have for us next.

I keep hearing the Canon vs. Nikon comment, but what’s the real difference between them can someone enlighten me??

Thanks Scott
Eugene from Singapore

By: Chad Pennington

Chad Pennington — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:59:22 +0000

Miguel thanks man. I will try and let you know email me so I can let you know the results chad at sobitartphotography dot com

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:59:24 +0000

Scott,

Very nice stuff here. Can’t wait to see what else you find once you dig through everything. Thanks for the details about your settings during the shoot. I find this info very helpful and interesting.

Oh and another Canon vs. Nikon comment. I’m still sticking with Canon!