NEW SHOTS from highschool student

Here are more recent shots which i took at my baseball teams game, any

improvement? i know they are a little overexposed

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Good job.

Much better with use higher shutter speed. I would work on the cropping to maybe straighten

the horizon and check out some sports mag photos to get a better crop. Sorry don't have

time to show you an example of what I mean.

Nice job... You're getting better with practice!

The composition and the freezing of the action is good, so you're halfway home.

There are two things you need to fix, though: One is in the camera, and one is in Photoshop.

First, your photos are a good 1.5 stops overexposed: Especially if you're shooting JPEG (instead of RAW), you need to look at the histogram from time to time, as you can be **easily** fooled by adjusting exposure looking at the LCD.

>>> If you're not sure, UNDEREXPOSE! With a digital camera, it's better to be two stops underexposed than one stop over, as you can dig it out (albit with some work) in Photoshop. [Especially so if the destination is Web, where the photos -- And grain -- are downsampled.]

In the morning, I'll show you where you need to level the photos. But, in the interim, look at the fence in the top shot: See how both the horizontal & vertical pipes are crooked?

much better. I tend to disagree with everyone on exposure though. With the way the shadows look, I am guessing this was a game that took place between 11 am and 1 pm. You got great exposure in the faces and that is what matters. Yes the white pants are blown, but you know what? They are white...white in direct sun gets blown. Print out an email and take it outside to read in direct sunlight. Hard to read without sunglasses on because your eyes get blinded by it. White get blown, so do not worry too much about that. You could adjust your exposure a little, and if using CS or CS2, you can toy with highlight recovery. If you change your exposure much, while the whites may not be blinding, the faces will be darker (helmet shadows).

The two suggestions I have are get lower. Sit if you have to. You are looking down on these guys and it makes them look small and makes the viewer lood down on them too. Second....get the grounds keeper to water that grass! Man....

Looking at these closer, you might be able to get a decent compromise between shadows and highlights if you underexpose no more than a 1/2 stop. If you are comfortable working with RAW, you could retain some of the detail in the pants but I would not worry too much about it. It is what happens in direct sunlight. In this situation I use my handheld meter to take a average reading. First reading is of the direct sunlight, second is of the shadows. My meter averages the two together and gives me a shutter speed and aperture setting that will give me some detail in the shadows and some detail in the highlights but still be correctly exposed. I might tweak it a 1/3rd of a stop, but not usually. You can find used light meters on ebay and many online photo forums for around a $100 and it is a life saver at times.