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SOU Softball
Sydney White
Concordia-Irvine won the National Championship last year, and they are ranked #1 this year, but two of their past three losses (mingled with 48 victories) are against the SOU Women’s Softball Team. Sydney White led the way, as she probably will all this season, with a complete game victory.
The first home game in Ashland isn’t until March. Until then they will be playing in tournaments in California.
Kara Kelsey of the SOU softball team
Southern Oregon University begins fall classes today. Tryouts to walk on to the SOU softball team will be held tomorrow at 3:45 p.m. at University Field on Iowa Street in Ashland.
Ellie playing softball
Today’s pic is a blast from the past. This week is volleyball tryouts at Ashland High School.
Today the SOU softball team has their final games at home. On Senior Day they will be playing at the Iowa Street field against Northwest Christian. Game times are 11 a.m. and about 1 p.m.
Jessica Flores
#thesiskiyoupad After Irene Barrantes caught a line drive at third, she fired the ball over to first to double off this College of Idaho runner. As the photos show, the ump made the correct call.
After getting 10-run ruled in the first game of their doubleheader against Eagle Point yesterday, the Ashland High School girls softball team came back from a 12-2 deficit in the second game to pull off a stunning, 15-14 victory.
Irene Barrantes diving catch
Most of my photomerges are in the three-to-five photo range. Sometimes they are just two photos. However, I like to try new things. So at last Saturday’s SOU softball game I set my D600 to “Ch” for continuous high speed shooting. The sky was overcast so I went with 1/4000, f/8, ISO-2000. If it was sunnier I would have went with something like 1/4000, f/11, ISO-800. Next time if it is overcast I think I will try something more along the lines of 1/1000, f/10, ISO-1600.
Anyway, I then focused on the batter at 70mm from behind first base. When she connected I immediately began firing as I turned my camera toward right field. Twenty eight photos (and about four seconds) later I was done shooting. The photomerged result can be seen above. After the photomerge my file size was almost 3 GB for what had become a single photo! I resized it and did a bit of editing to get it down to about the 1 MB image I uploaded. Click on the photo for the more detailed 1 MB version and to have it fill your screen.
Ashland Little League softball
…girls of spring?
SOU softball field with Grizzly Peak in the background
Major League Baseball begins regular season play in just over a week. Today’s photo is the view between games of a softball doubleheader last weekend in Ashland. The Lady Raiders won both games.
Normally I’d need to take three or four photos and photomerge them together for a shot like this. However, I used my new (to me, it’s a used lens actually) Nikon 20mm f/2.8 prime lens and was able to capture foul pole to foul pole in a single image. I love this lens for its optics, size, and weight, but I only purchased it because it was part of a package deal with a 50mm f/1.2 lens. I also have a 24mm f/2.8 (and a 14-24mm f/2.8) so I don’t really need both (or all three). Therefore, if you are interested in the 20mm f/2.8 manual focus lens, make me an offer I can’t refuse, and it will be yours. Oh yeah, and if you shoot with a Canon, it also came with a Fotodiox Lens Mount Adapter which allows you to use this, or any, Nikon lens on a Canon DSLR. I’ll toss this in at no extra charge.