Cricket - Another day practising the game

[Stagecoach]

Oh lucky you. Your ball on bat shot is good, although the batsman does look like it is a bit of a effort !!

The facial expressions if you can get them at the right time are quite amazing, they look entirely different people.

The only time I have really tried anything like this I put my camera onto continual shooting and ended up taking 1000 photos in around an hour. Then had the laborios task of sorting through them for any good ones....I never finished the task !!

This made me laugh and shooting a burst is something I have not tried yet.

So being inquisitive and to arm myself with some data consider this;

The speed of the ball from a good bowler can be 90mph (150km/hr). Record speeds are higher.
It is 22yds (20.1m) between stumps.
It will take approx (ignoring accel/deceleration) 0.5 seconds for the ball after leaving the bowlers hand to arriving at the batsman.

So with my camera which can do 6 fps I'll get 2.5 to 3 frames in only in that period so what's the odds of that second or third frame coinciding with the ball hitting the bat or stumps

Remote sound triggering is what's needed

[Stagecoach]

Graham, those are, as we have come to expect from you, great images. That makes it difficult to offer constructive C&C, but, IMHO...in spite of the same camera settings, the changing light is causing some color/exposure shifting, #2 looks perfect on my monitor while #3 is a little overexposed and has the resulting different colors. Were I a betting man...I'm thinking intermittent clouds.

Thank you Chauncey.

Differing light has certainly had a slight affect on exposure and hence contrast of the images but I suspect the greatest differences are due to my PP. The only thing that I did not adjust on any image was the WB and each has had exactly the same sharpening.

Variations have then come about due to different picture modes in ACR being used, sometimes Adobe Standard and others Camera Standard and then my treatment of other basic adjustments to try and make each image as I feel is best at the time. I have also experimented with a vignette on some.

Initial exposures so far have only showed clipping on the fluorescent areas such as cap peaks, writing and colours on gloves and not on any white shirts or trousers.

I need to have a look at my workflow and may possibly find I can batch process the jpegs although many images have to be cropped as well which makes things a bit long winded

Aside from that, compositionally, I like #2 the best...the juxtaposition of the bat's direction gives great conflict in the image.

This one is undoubtedly the star of the batch to date and gives me a benchmark of what can be achieved, with patience