As any follower of my Twitter account (@PhotoDijit) would know, I took a trip to Southern California for some family action, highlighted by a couple baseball games. When we landed on Thursday, June 24th we hung around for a couple hours then went off to the Dodgers at Angels game in Anaheim.
I wanted to highlight that day by sharing one of my favorite shots from the game, showing one of my favorite Dodgers players, Andre Ethier.
We had great seats that day, sitting only one section down from the first-base dugout where the Dodgers were for the series. It was an excellent vantage point for shooting photos around first base. I brought my telephoto lens, which enabled me to get such great photos of people I only see on TV.
On a techy note, though, I had to rent a Canon 5D since my 40D was in the shop for some repairs. Switching from ASP-C sized sensor to the full-frame sensors is quite a bit of a change when shooting sports – the crop factor really is a benefit when you’re dealing with far away subjects.
Many more photos can be seen on my Flickr account.