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grandpaw

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This is a picture of my grandson batting at his T-Ball game last night. A lot of people would have used the several frames per second option to get this picture but I shoot everything as a single shot and single focus to get my action shots of sports or wildlife. I find that I have a much better success rate relying on my reaction abilities than shooting a bunch of frames and hoping that one will get the picture that I wanted. This is a one swing, one shot picture and I got just what I wanted.

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RockyNH_RIP

RockyNH_RIP

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grandpaw said:
This is a picture of my grandson batting at his T-Ball game last night. A lot of people would have used the several frames per second option to get this picture but I shoot everything as a single shot and single focus to get my action shots of sports or wildlife. I find that I have a much better success rate relying on my reaction abilities than shooting a bunch of frames and hoping that one will get the picture that I wanted. This is a one swing, one shot picture and I got just what I wanted.
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Fantastic Timing!

Pat in NH
 
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grandpaw

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This is a picture of my other grandson that was playing at the same time on a different field. He is the one catching the ball. This is another single shot picture.

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Marcel

Marcel

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grandpaw said:
Cormorant
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I really like your cormorant Jeff but the jazzy bokeh I find disturbing. Maybe, when you sharpen if you'd mask the out of focus area it wouldn't get this way? Or reduce the contrast in the OOF area and/or the saturation? I'm just wondering.
 
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grandpaw

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Marcel said:
I really like your cormorant Jeff but the jazzy bokeh I find disturbing. Maybe, when you sharpen if you'd mask the out of focus area it wouldn't get this way? Or reduce the contrast in the OOF area and/or the saturation? I'm just wondering.
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Marcel, I took this shot with the Nikon 70-300VR and it just doesn't look the same as the Nikon 70-200VR F2.8 does. I really do not know how to mask off something.
 
Marcel

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grandpaw said:
Marcel, I took this shot with the Nikon 70-300VR and it just doesn't look the same as the Nikon 70-200VR F2.8 does. I really do not know how to mask off something.
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What are you using to post process Jeff?
If Element or photoshop, you duplicate your layer and apply a blur filter on the top layer, make a mask, invert it to black and then using a paintbrush you paint white on the mask to remove the blur where you don't want it.
 
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grandpaw

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Marcel said:
What are you using to post process Jeff?
If Element or photoshop, you duplicate your layer and apply a blur filter on the top layer, make a mask, invert it to black and then using a paintbrush you paint white on the mask to remove the blur where you don't want it.
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I'm using CS5
 
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