Well, I have a bunch more good pictures but here's a fun sequence from the Angel game we went to on Saturday, April 6. We upgraded to seats three rows off the field right behind the Angel's dugout. It was really cool. I took around 150 pictures, mostly in 3 or 4 shot bursts.
Amazingly, the ump called him out. The camera buffer ran out before he made the call.
I kind of goofed & didn't change the ISO from 100 to 200 or 400 after the sun went down. That's why the players are blurry & the ump isn't. I am still learning how to use my DSLR, so these things are going to happen. I still think they came out pretty well.
More good stuff shortly...
I don't think the call is amazing.
Judging by where the catchers feet are in #2 and the plate must be behind the catcher in #4, the runner must have been sliding wide of the plate and reaching for it.
#3 is blurry, but I think a tag is being applied. From this angle you can't see if the runner ever touches the plate.
From the umpires angle, this would be clear. This leads me to two important points. #2 he's a better ump, than you are a camera man, and most important #1 ALWAYS run over the cather.
Posted by: Mark | April 09, 2008 at 05:04 PM