I had fun finding out if they would allow DSLR's at the game and after quite a run around and many conflicting answers, and definitions, along with a plea from me to post the info on their website, I finally received an email from the stadium manager stating that all cameras were allowed but no tripods or monopds, and to be respectful of the other fans ie: don't hit them in the head with your camera. Great so I could take my 18-200mm but tough luck on the fireworks. I tried anyways but.. well, you'll see.
OK so hand held with a f/3.5-5.6 lens and low light and to make it worse what daylight we had was falling fast as a storm moved in.
We reached our seats and I took a metered reading switched to manual and fired off an 11 shot pano:
[caption id="attachment_392" align="aligncenter" width="800" caption="17 shot Panorama @18mm, f/3.5, 1/400sec, iso 200 Stitched in Autopano Giga"]
[/caption]We were just off the backstop netting so we had to keep an eye out for those foul tip nose breakers. Just as an aside panos at 18mm gets nasty due to its vignetting, it just about killed Photoshop so I used AutoPano instead and it did a better job removing the vignette.
Here's a3 shot sequence of the first pitch:
[caption id="attachment_394" align="aligncenter" width="630" caption="Coming forward..."]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_395" align="aligncenter" width="630" caption="The throw..."]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_393" align="aligncenter" width="630" caption="The follow through"]
[/caption]Love our seats! Those were taken at 200mm, f/5.6, 1/400sec, iso 800 in continuous high mode, and using back button focus 3D tracking.
BTW that's Matt Palmer pitching and he did a great job!
Here's the Mascot the lovable and uber friendly Bumble:
[caption id="attachment_397" align="aligncenter" width="570" caption="The Salt Lake Bees Mascot "Bumble""]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_398" align="aligncenter" width="530" caption="Mascots get to watch the game as well"]
[/caption]That little bit of sun you see on Bumble was the last we'd see of it.
Here are some random shots...
[caption id="attachment_399" align="aligncenter" width="630" caption="yummy!"]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_396" align="aligncenter" width="630" caption="Some random couple doing the Facebook "hey were here at the game and here's our crappy cell phone pic to prove it" shot."]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_401" align="aligncenter" width="530" caption="I made the big screen! This was about 2 stops under exposed thank goodness I was in RAW"]
[/caption]How about a few "action" shots?
[caption id="attachment_402" align="aligncenter" width="630" caption="A Tacoma Rainer player almost gets tagged leading off of first too far."]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_400" align="aligncenter" width="630" caption="I believe I can fly..."]
[/caption]We got a triple off that play, the fielder missed the bounce and pick up off the wall.
So by now it was getting a bit darker and I wanted to get some Panoramas from other areas of the park before it was too dark, so I headed out to left field.
[caption id="attachment_406" align="aligncenter" width="800" caption="A 3 shot Hand Held HDR from Left field."]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_412" align="aligncenter" width="800" caption="Hand Held HDR Panorama from Left Field. 6frames x 3brackets=18 shot panorama!"]
[/caption]See the rain coming?
Here it is:
[caption id="attachment_411" align="aligncenter" width="630" caption="Raining"]
[/caption]Some creative umbrellas for the dedicated fans:
[caption id="attachment_414" align="aligncenter" width="630" caption="Programs work, at least for a little while."]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_413" align="aligncenter" width="630" caption="Plates! These were my favorite."]
[/caption]We chickened out and hid under the 2nd deck overhang until it stopped just after sunset. (I'm still babying my D7000) However before it stopped completely we got a nice treat that I just couldn't capture very well but I tried.
[caption id="attachment_415" align="aligncenter" width="800" caption="Rainbow(actually a double - but very faint) Handheld 3 bracket HDR"]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_405" align="aligncenter" width="800" caption="The Bees at bat - 3 bracket Hand Held HDR"]
[/caption]I headed out to right field to try and capture what little color I could in the sunset from there with less than stellar results, sure could've used a tripod!
[caption id="attachment_416" align="aligncenter" width="800" caption="Looking from the right field fence - 3 bracket Hand Held HDR"]
[/caption]Well lets do a pano, but it's too dark now to bracket hand held that many shots so it's a "normal" pano.
[caption id="attachment_417" align="aligncenter" width="800" caption="A poor sunset from the right field General Admissions area"]
[/caption][caption id="attachment_404" align="aligncenter" width="800" caption="Looking down the 1st baseline - 3 bracket Hand Held HDR"]
[/caption]That's one of my favorite shots from the night! Wish I'd had a 300mm.
[caption id="attachment_403" align="aligncenter" width="800" caption="The walk of shame - 3 bracket Hand Held HDR"]
[/caption]This poor guy! Notice how no one's looking at him, they're all looking at the Tacoma dugout, and I'm mad I missed focusing on him but check out the umpire doing the whole "does my butt look fat in these pants?" thing in the background.
OK so we win the game - Yay!
After a little wait for the wind to settle they put on a nice fireworks display. I did my best but I had no tripod, just a camera bag on my lap jammed up agaist the seat back infront of me, and the guide wires for the backstop netting in the middle of my view but here ya go with a few I liked.
And my favorite fireworks shot which was a semi accident. I was zooming in to recompose (All with the camera in my lap so I was just guessing) and after changing the zoom I waited for a blast and I wiggled the camera to settle it into the bag for better support and I liked what it did to the firework.
A fun night with the family and my wife and I extended our vacations one more day so we could go hiking with my brother and his family, but that's for next time...Happy Shooting!
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