Players using others players bats or other equipment

[kylehess10]

Re: Players using others players bats or other equipment

Kyle,

Your photography is amazing! I always look forward to seeing your photos! Keep up the great work.

Thanks, Bobby

Thanks Bobby! I always try my best

[frikativ54]

Re: Players using others players bats or other equipment

Thanks Bobby! I always try my best

Are you taking these with your 300 mm f/2.8? Are you using a teleconverter as well?

Hopefully, some day I can get as good as you in my sports photography. It's amazing how awesome you are at photography at such a young age, Kyle.

[OaklandAsFan]

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your photography is great Kyle, Can I ask what lens and what setting you use for your photos?

Thanks

[kylehess10]

Re: Players using others players bats or other equipment

Thanks guys!

I'm indeed using my Nikkor AF-S 300mm f/2.8 lens. I only put on my teleconverter for just a little while each game. It gives me a much better focal length (it turns the lens into a 510mm f/4.8) but it downgrades the sharpness just a tiny bit. It's best used for close-up infield/outfield shots.


The settings are almost different for most of my shots. In the daytime, I always go for the fastest shutter speed, which in my camera is 1/8000th of a second. I keep my aperture wide open (without my teleconverter, I leave it at f/2.8 the whole time, and with the teleconverter it's f/4.8 and I leave that wide open too).

During night games, I have my settings saved at 300mm, f/2.8, 1/2000 shutter, ISO 2500. I always try to get the best color for my images, and for that I actually guess the color temperature in Kelvin. Most cameras let you manually set the color temperature. For day & night games the temperature is usually around 5500-6500. I'll usually just take a picture at each different temperature in that range until I find what color matches what I'm looking at. Understanding white balance can dramatically change the appearance of your photos. I've learned a lot about that this year. The color in my images are much more on-point than in previous years.

I take pictures at every single home series and I'll take usually 500-700 images per game. The more you go out and shoot, whether you're professional or not, the more you'll learn on your own. That's how I helped myself understand the settings more. You just have to practice, practice, practice, because photography isn't simple at all. It's one of the most complicated hobbies out there (it's actually rated as one of the world's most stressful jobs too), but as long as you practice and read up on new things all the time, then you can have some great work come from it.

[BMH]

Re: Players using others players bats or other equipment

Bat that has been used by Dustin Pedroia during his recent 24 game hit streak. We picked it up from him yesterday. He wants us to make a copy but change the handle some.

[corsairs25]

Re: Players using others players bats or other equipment

Bat that has been used by Dustin Pedroia during his recent 24 game hit streak. We picked it up from him yesterday. He wants us to make a copy but change the handle some.

These are all cool pictures, but the almost live photo from the factory floor is especially wonderful. Thanks guys.

[BMH]

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It took me about an hour to strip off all the pine tar.

[skier14]

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It took me about an hour to strip off all the pine tar.

A-Bat makes (or maybe just sells) something to help remove it. Maybe you used it, and I'm not sure how it works. http://www.promaplebats.com/Store/ta...0/Default.aspx

On another note, that is a very cool picture.

[Astros1994]

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While looking at photos on the Life website saw this photo of Darryl Strawberry wearing an Orel Hershiser jersey during a game against the Astros on 5-29-91. http://www.life.com/image/329443

[frikativ54]

Re: Players using others players bats or other equipment

While looking at photos on the Life website saw this photo of Darryl Strawberry wearing an Orel Hershiser jersey during a game against the Astros on 5-29-91. http://www.life.com/image/329443

Did he give Straw some drug money in exchange for the jersey? j/k

[frikativ54]

Re: Players using others players bats or other equipment

Did he give Straw some drug money in exchange for the jersey? j/k

Or perhaps it was a totally clean jersey-to-jersey exchange.

[BULBUS]

Re: Players using others players bats or other equipment

Bat that has been used by Dustin Pedroia during his recent 24 game hit streak. We picked it up from him yesterday. He wants us to make a copy but change the handle some.

What model is this new bat?

[sox83cubs84]

Re: Players using others players bats or other equipment

Over 20 years ago, I owned a H&B Mc44 Willie McCovey bat...used by Fred Kendall.

Dave Miedema

[kylehess10]

Re: Players using others players bats or other equipment

Seems like nobody wanted to use their bats today at the Braves-Marlins game:



Jason Heyward using a Jack Wilson bat:






Michael Bourn also using a Jack Wilson bat:





Brian McCann using a Nate McLouth bat:





Randall Delgado using a Martin Prado bat, but it appears that he put his number "40" on the knob











Not sure whose bat Emilio Bonafacio is using, but the last name is defnitely Martinez:







Omar Infante was using a Gaby Sanchez bat:

[gameused]

Re: Players using others players bats or other equipment

Jed Lowrie with a Pedroia Marucci bat.

Bobby