Originally posted by ThorSanchez Good pictures. One little suggestion, I think I would have traded a bit of aperture for shutter speed. There's a lot of motion blur, you can see it in the last photo of the catcher blocking the ball. You probably could have gone f/7.1 or something like that and increased shutter speed to freeze the action a little more. It looks like there was pretty good light.
Although I've never shot with a teleconverter so maybe that changes the thought process a little.
I think I have read that the 1.4 rear converter costs one f stop
never tested to be sure
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you are probably correct about trading a bit of aperture for shutter speed
but I want some "blur" whether it is the ball, or player or swing - I translate that as "speed" a picture perfect photo doesn't show "speed" or "movement" to me but my effort does add to the failure rate
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also on the photo you referenced I used the back af to prefocus, the batter, not the catcher, was where the af was targeted
the play where Lester (34) failed to lift the bunt into the air toward home the prefocus was on the base runner while he was standing at third and I shutter bursted as he ran home. so he is in better focus than the others.
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the longest lens I brought into the stadium was the 50 - 200 mm zoom I didn't want to be turned away with the big guy - the 150 - 450 mm zoom
so I did give up some with the 1.4 converter when I used it as well
the other set of photos in # 37 I used the 100 mm with the converter - day game
#36 was a night game - Smc Pentax-DA L 50-200mm F4-5.6 ED WR + HD Pentax-DA 1.4x AW AF Rear Converter for the first two photos posted and just the 50 - 200 mm for the end of game celebration the others were day games
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Sunday's game I had better seats but the screen is visible in every shot
in each photo, I used back af on the batter prior to the pitch and fast burst shutter as he ran, so he is in better focus (?) in the photos at first
HD Pentax-DA 16-85mm F3.5-5.6 ED DC WR
all in all, I am pretty pleased for the first effort with these set ups