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by digital.democracy

While it’s fun to look at baseball photos in newspapers and magazines, you don’t have to be a world-famous photojournalist to take exciting baseball pictures of your favorite team, its players, and the drama and elegance that is baseball. You can do it too. All you need is some baseball photography tips.

What about equipment? The good news is that you don’t need a 600mm lens and a ten-frame-per-second motordrive SLR like the “Hot Shots” have. Of course, heavy artillery like this can help, but you can take great baseball pictures with just about any camera. Here’s how…

The Inverse-Access Law.

There’s one fundamental principle for capturing baseball pictures we made up, that we call the Inverse Access Law. It relates to what you have to expect when you go to the baseball game. Simply stated, the “Law” is this: The bigger the league, the farther you’ll probably be from the action. Don’t be discouraged. This “law” applies equally to professional photographers as well as amateurs. In a Major League game, when the umpire cries “Play Ball,” no one is allowed on the field. No one. Period. End of story.

Realize, the professional sports photographer with the right Press Pass and the big lens can be on the sidelines at a football or basketball game…but not at a baseball game. With America’s “National Pastime,” everybody — professional and amateur alike — shoots from the stands though there are press boxes in a few key locations for the pros. However you still have a lot of photo opportunities even from the stands to capture great baseball photos.

And, there’s the rub — even for the professional. The bigger the stadium, the greater the distance from the playing field to the stands. So be prepared: Major League games will give you minimum opportunity for great baseball pictures — especially if your seats are way out in the bleachers. But don’t despair just yet — we’ve got some hints later in this article that can get you closer even in Major League stadiums.

In any event, at the local little league field or humble sandlot diamond, you won’t have any problem positioning yourself close to the action. Usually, you can walk right up to the backstop behind home plate, and stick your camera through the fence for an over-the-umpire’s-shoulder close-up view. Only the catcher will have a better view. And if there are some seats along the first-base side of the diamond, you may be able to claim the front row and make it your personal press box!

What does this all mean? Simply that you’ve got to be realistic and realize that you’ll get closer to the action and get better shots at the small ballfield. But, as we just said, don’t give up on the BIG stadium yet.

First, let’s go over some baseball photography tips for handling the action at all types of baseball fields. We call these baseball photography tips, the Six Commandments.

The Six Commandments for Great Baseball Photos

1. Get as close to the action as you can.

Wherever possible — in big stadium or sandlot seats — try to nearly fill the frame with your subject rather than have him or her show up as a distant speck.

How close is close enough? The closer the better.

Adorama Photography TV presents How’d They Do That with David Bergman. David is a concert, sports and action photographer based in New York. David has photographed everything from major sporting events like the World Series to the high intensity world of rock concert tours. He has photographed six US Presidents and his Obama inauguration GigaPan has been viewed over 12 million times. For info about the gear David uses, and to learn more about concert photography as well as his work with Bon Jovi, go here: www.adorama.com See more of David’s work at www.davidbergman.net and at www.tourphotographer.com. Products David uses: Nikon D3S Body Only www.adorama.com Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8G AF-S VR II Zoom-Nikkor ED-IF Lens www.adorama.com Nikon 24-70mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S Wide Angle-Telephoto Zoom Nikkor Lens www.adorama.com Nikon 14mm – 24mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S Wide-Angle Zoom-Nikkor Lens www.adorama.com Apple Aperture 3 Photo Editing Software for Mac. www.adorama.com Visit www.adorama.com for more photography videos! Send your questions to: AskMark@Adorama.com

by 762_AK

Digital cameras have quickly become very popular in the last few years, and their capabilities are increasing dramatically all the time. Digital cameras are constantly improving and new models that offer better features are coming on the market with frequent regularity. These cameras are available in a wide range of prices and features. Digital cameras are improving all the time and that will remain true as long as world-leading manufacturers invest in research and development of these products. Because of the ever changing capabilities of these cameras, it can be quite difficult to decide which one is the best for you. Below are a few tips that should help and guide you in investing in a digital camera that is right for you.

(1) The first thing that you need is to do your research thoroughly before you set out to buy a digital camera, such as required pixels, SLR or fixed lens, the price range you are looking for, do you need video capability in your still camera and vice verse.

(2) When buying a digital camera, we are faced with so many options and all the technical jargon can be quite intimidating. One term customers get bombarded with when opting to buy digital cameras is “mega pixels”. So familiarize yourself with all the technical terms to fully understand the capabilities of the product you intend to purchase.

(3) It will also help for you to read a digital camera buying guide which puts camera against camera so you can see the benefits and drawbacks against each other.

(5) Try and read reviews on the product you are thinking of buying but because there are so many digital camera reviews, it’s useful to break them into categories that best match your needs.

(6) Doing your research online can save you a lot of money and time, searching for the correct one for your needs.

(7) Once you have done your research, go to your local store to get a touch and feel for the real thing. You can also clear up any doubts you have with the salesperson.

(8) Buying online can work out a lot cheaper in many cases but this is not always the case nowadays, so check out your local stores for special discounts.

(9) Look for sales or discounts because a lot of the times you can find a cheaper version with the same spec, just by buying from a different manufacturer or vendor.

(10) Like a lot of other things in life the saying, “you get what you pay for” is especially applicable to digital cameras, but this doesn’t mean you need to buy the most expensive camera to be satisfied because sometimes you might get almost the same product, by just going for a different manufacturer.

So hopefully going through these simple tips will help you decide to get the best digital camera for your needs. I wish you well in capturing all those special memories and having lots of fun while doing so.

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