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The Sweet Spot
The Sweet Spot
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Challenge: Stopped Motion V (Basic Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-300D Rebel
Lens: Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0L USM
Location: San Ramon, CA
Date: Mar 17, 2010
Aperture: f/4.0
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/2000
Galleries: Sports, Action
Date Uploaded: Mar 21, 2010

 Capturing the moment of the bat impacting the baseball in a high-school baseball game. This went for a double over the left-fielders head. Shot through a chain-link fence. Processed in photoshop:
- crop and straighten
- Levels adjustment layer
- curves adjustment layer
- flatten image
- resize to 800 pixels wide using bicubic sharpen
- unsharpen mask 85%, radius=1, threshold=8
- save as jpg

Statistics
Place: 28 out of 135
Avg (all users): 6.3469
Avg (commenters): 7.8333
Avg (participants): 6.5500
Avg (non-participants): 6.2811
Views since voting: 1179
Views during voting: 425
Votes: 245
Comments: 20
Favorites: 0

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 03/31/2010 11:25:28 AM
I didn't mind the slight blur in the ball and bat, since it conveys motion while freezing enough of the action to make this fit the challenge. Btw, this was the only one of the shots I voted an 8 or higher not to make the top 20.
03/31/2010 08:03:45 AM
somehow this makes me think of Hommer S.
Great timing. well done!
 Comments Made During the Challenge
03/30/2010 10:02:27 PM
Perfect timing!! I wish I had taken this shot. Good luck!
 03/30/2010 07:52:29 PM
Perfect timing
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 03/29/2010 11:42:52 PM
timing is everything.
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 03/28/2010 07:02:15 AM
Superb timing, i just wonder how many pictures you took to get this one. Spot on stop motion picture.
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 03/27/2010 07:56:53 PM
Great timming
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 03/27/2010 06:40:15 PM
You're not kidding!! SWEET capture! perfect.
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 03/27/2010 04:06:29 PM
Great shot.
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 03/27/2010 12:52:25 PM
Bat is blurred :(
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 03/27/2010 11:43:46 AM
Great timing. Great shot. Gets a ten from me
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 03/27/2010 09:21:04 AM
You caught that at the perfect point.
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 03/26/2010 06:07:27 PM
You must have taken hundreds of pictures to finally get the timing so perfect! Well Done!
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 03/25/2010 07:29:06 PM
Great timing
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 03/25/2010 03:57:34 PM
Only if youhave tried to take this photo do you know how difficult it is. Well done!
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 03/25/2010 04:28:55 AM
What a great capture! What I would have done is cropted this to more ofa portrate to remove the catcher and and the warm-up batter to remove these distractions. But that's me and if you look at my challenge scores you may be better off ignoring me. The tones, focus and speed are spot on so it's an 8 from me. Good luck.
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 03/24/2010 10:29:03 PM
Ok, so the bat isn't 100% stopped, but that's pretty darn close. Love the baseball shots and this was my favorite of the baseball shots. 9 from me.
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 03/24/2010 10:09:24 PM
Great stop motion shot. Did he make it to base?
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 03/24/2010 02:31:37 PM
WOW thats actually crushing the ball i love this shot love the clay kicking from his cleats 8
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 03/24/2010 12:23:13 PM
Wow...great capture! I love the catchers mitt in the photo too. Good job!
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