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Max Gordon – Oregon State University Beavers Baseball
In the latter part of the last decade, Max Gordon was starring for the Ashland High School Baseball Team. Now he plays center field for Oregon State. He has made several, stunning diving catches this season. For instance, this past Sunday he made one of the most miraculous dives I have ever seen.
Oregon Baseball – Craig Meredith
I spent the past couple days in Eugene. Today’s photo is from yesterday’s Civil War game with Oregon State University at PK Park. It was a tight game until the last few innings when OSU opened up their offensive attack and ended up blowing out the Ducks 9-0. The winner of today’s game (at noon) in Eugene (the last in the three-game series) will likely win the Pac-12 Conference Championship. Both teams are ranked in the NCAA Top Ten.
I have a few hundred photos from the game. How many do you want to see?
AHS Track & Field
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?
One of my reasons for shooting yesterday’s softball game was to see if I could get away with taking only my Nikon 70-300mm VR to Japan and Korea this summer where I plan to attend several professional baseball games. My other option is to take my 70-200mm f/2.8 and a 1.7X teleconverter. The problem is those two combined weigh more than twice as much as my 70-300mm and they take up more space in my luggage.
The 70-300mm passed the test in sunny conditions. Unfortunately, most of the games I will go to in Korea and Japan will probably be at night and/or indoors. I’m still leaning towards the 70-300mm though.
Irene Barrantes – SOU softball
Karlie Stephens
… en route to a game one victory over Northwest Christian University yesterday. The Raiders went on to win both games of the doubleheader to improve their record to 5-1 in the conference. Today SOU faces Concordia in another doubleheader. The first game begins at 11 a.m. in Ashland.
Eric Thompson – Southern Oregon University Men’s Basketball
Eric Thompson scored 30 points today to lead the Raiders to a first round win in the NAIA tournament over Madonna. ET made five of his six three-point attempts in addition to pulling down nine rebounds. The Raiders will play again on Friday night.