After spending three of the last four days shooting the ACC tournament, a relevant link showed up in my RSS feeds … this morning: Digital Photography School on How To Shoot Baseball. No advice on the exact technical specs for metering under stadium lights, which is what I need — either my shots are underexposed, they’re blurry because I have to set the shutter too slow, or both — but an interesting read all the same. Things I’ll consider for next spring for sure.
I like this photo because it’s how I’ll always think of Dustin Ackley — straight out of the batter’s box after having hit a line-drive shot somewhere in the field. shep. and I have been lucky, though we take it for granted, these days: in the last three years, we’ve seen Dustin Ackley play at least 50 games live. We watch him and expect him to come to the plate and hit like a stud, but when you get right down to it, we’re lucky. Not everyone has spent the last three years watching the best pure hitter in the college game tear pitching staffs apart. When you really get down to it, pure facts, D.Ack is extraordinary. And we’ve got to spend three years watching him be that way, to the point where it’s the norm.
That’s lucky.
brand new kind of photography 