Catchers [119/365]

I didn't feel like posting a shot I might put in the school paper from this game, so I intentionally took some time in between batters to do some candid portraits of the two team's catchers. They're both looking at their coaches. I was sitting right next to the entrances of each team's dugouts, on the side of the dugout closest to home plate.

 

The main thing I think this shows from a technical perspective is a difference in lighting. The San Mateo catcher(bottom) doesn't have the sun in her eyes like the player in the first shot, and her eyes are much sharper due to some sort of diffused light probably coming off of the ground or backstop.

 

But sports are sports, can't choose your lighting in sports. The ump let me have two great spots and let me move between those two shots in between innings(but don't move anywhere else). I did almost get hit in the head by a foul ball this time, but I just learned from that experience that you need to watch out when a leftie's hitting.

 

It was better than my first time covering a softball game(beginning of the semester)-when it rained and the ump yelled at me and the opposing team's fans yelled at me for blocking their view.

 

Anyway, this was San Mateo jr college vs Cosumnes River college, playoffs. Hawks(CRC's team) won 5-0 in the first game of a 3 game series. Next two games will be in the following few days.

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70-200mm f/4L lens shot wide open, ISO 200, 1/1500 second exposure for the top shot and the bottom for some reason ended up being a 1/250 exposure. Edited in lightroom, combined in CS4.

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