When I was in photography school, the "small format" class included sports
photography - mostly Baseball because it was Spring Semester.
One of the requirements was a four photo sequence and at least one of the images
had to have the "ball in the air".
We had to shoot it on film and process the film ourselves (the school had
darkroom with processors for C-41 and E-6), so you didn't "KNOW" whether you'd
got it until you processed your film.
And technically it was cheating to scan the film to print it digitally or to
even use Photoshop just to look at the frame to see if you could find the ball
in there somewhere.
I shot a squeeze play with the runner between 1st & 2nd, using the PZ-1p,
blazing through a whole 24 exposure role, but somewhere in the middle, I found a
4 frame sequence with the ball captured in the air in all four frames.
And the runner actually made it back to 1st base without being tagged out. Died
on first base though, because the next batter hit a fly ball into the outfield
that was caught for out 3.
On 8/23/2021 10:52:01, Stanley Halpin wrote:
Larry, the other evening we went to a local minor league baseball game (our
team is a farm club of the LA Dodgers, the opponent was an Oakland farm team…)
After the game as they were setting up the canon from which a human cannonball
was to be fired, I was fussing with my camera, trying to figure best shot
sequence, zoom, length, etc, Meg pulled out her phone, set it on video, and
prepared to capture the event. Duh. I decided that the K-01 I was using must
have video mode, found the right dial setting, and captured an adequate video
of the event.
But I still regret not having a decent still image of the guy emerging at 70mph
from the barrel of the canon… I’ve been to a few air shows and if I were in
Alan’s situation I definitely would have been planning on still images rather
than video.
Stan
On Aug 20, 2021, at 1:58 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:
On Aug 20, 2021, at 6:45 AM, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote:
Tried my hand at something different. Thanks for all the advice. K5 & HD
55-300. Ended up MF TAV 1/1000sec f8 but not easy. Only about 5% keepers. High
aerial shots are heavy crops. Very challenging - obviously needs lots of practice.
5% keepers is a very respectable ratio.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/wisselstroom/albums/72157719758969510/
And that’s a very respectable set.
It occurs to me that while we’re sitting here complaining about the difficulty
of shooting photographs of aerobatic planes, Cotty is probably having a good
laugh and thinking we should try getting video.
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