Hello Wigwam, Having just shot over 8,000 little league action shots, I can relate. Rather than spot metering, you can use Center Weighted and find something of reasonable reflectance to kind of simulate an ambient reading. Use the grass or something. Usually the lighting is not going to change a whole lot so one reading should do for awhile.
Your timing on the shot is pretty good. I have found that most shots benefit by the ball being clearly visible in the picture and you have done well on that count. The angle that you took this at is a bit too far behind the batter, so I'm guessing you were in the stands or put in a location that you couldn't move anymore forward from the batter. Backgrounds are always a problem with baseball. Many times, the best vantage point to shoot from has poor backgrounds. About all you can do there is try to shoot closer to wide open to blur it some. Nice shot overall! Thanks for sharing, Bruce Monday, June 6, 2005, 2:42:36 AM, you wrote: WJ> Not sure what PESO stands for, but I get the idea that if one wants to WJ> share a photo with the group, this is the way to do it. Please correct WJ> me if I'm actually asking to be debagged and radished instead. WJ> I am a strange guy, I bought my *ist DS so I could mount my classic M42 WJ> lenses on it and use it like my Bessaflex TM in digital. So far, it WJ> seems to be just what I was after. I also have other bad habits - I do WJ> not have any Microsoft products, I use Linux and all the free software WJ> that comes with it. WJ> So I am trying to automate my workflow, using some tools that run on WJ> Linux and scripting them in Perl. I am using exiftool, dcraw, and WJ> imagemagick(convert) to take my raw PEF files and massage them into WJ> something worth looking at. This one, however, I converted using the WJ> UFdraw import tool in The Gimp (the Linux version of Photoshop). Direct WJ> from .PEF to JPG, resized, some minor image level adjustment and USM WJ> applied. WJ> This was taken at the restored 1930's era baseball stadium in the little WJ> town of Wilson, North Carolina where I live. Lens was a WJ> cheap-n-cheerful Vivitar 200mm f3.5 shot stopped down to f5.6 or so. WJ> Shutter speed, according to EXIF, was 1/500, AE used, ISO 200, Center WJ> Weighted Metering. I should have used spot-metering, in retrospect. Oh WJ> well. WJ> Hope you like it! WJ> http://www.cameramentor.com/jpg/baseball_001.jpg WJ> Best, WJ> Wiggy WJ> http://www.growlery.com/wigwam
