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Today I went to Limeport stadium to shoot the baseball game of Southern Lehigh vs. Pen Argyl. I was planning on getting there early but some how that never works out. I was running about 45 minutes behind and by the time I got there everyone was done with batting practice and the game was about to start. This gave me no time to set up and get my stuff dialed in. I started out on the first base line and got the above shoot of the winning pitcher Gary McCool as he throws one of the last pitches of the inning.
SL started out kinda slow but Rocco DelPriore managed to get on base. He also managed to almost get picked off.......twice.
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SL only had a 1 nothing lead into the 5th inning and I wasn't really getting anything great from where I was set up so I decided to move to the third base line to see if I could produce anything better. Below coach Greenwald gives the players in the field signals.
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The weather and light were staying pretty consistent so I thought that I could keep shooting the rest of the game with this set up because it was working out pretty well for me. You know, I shouldn't say stuff like that even if it's to my self because as soon as I do everything goes wrong. A Pen Argyl runner steals second with the throw from the plate just a tad late.
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Normally I do every thing I can before I bump the iso above 1000, 1. because I HATE noise 2. because it looks unnatural. But because i made a comment on the weather being so nice I would end up having to do this and have pictures look like crap because they are noisy.
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For the next picture I really wanted to get the coaches sun glasses the only thing that was lit in the frame so I under exposed the picture by a few stops and this is what I got, nothing use full.
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Right after I got this shot I noticed a pair of sun glasses just sitting on top of the dugout and form where I was sitting looked like it had potential to be a pretty cool photo.
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To me it was worth the 15 minutes of waiting for there to be nothing in my way to get the shot. In the bottom of the 5th inning SL finally opened it up and had a break out inning.
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Right fielder Kyle Behemlander slides into home base and the catcher clearly has him dead to rights but he was called safe. A couple of my friends sitting behind the dugout yelled and to me and asked if I got it, I said yes. Then they go was he safe, I walked over and showed them the picture and they agreed that it was a bad call.
Team mates yell from the dugout to the batter to try and get on base. The final score from the game was SL 10 Pa 1
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