by DonnieS » Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:06 pm
Stumbled over a good idea this weekend. When you coach and you like to take softball action shots, big problem. This weekend, I went out to 3rd, with my camera around my neck, and tried to get an action shot (it was a pool game, no biggie) - the kids fussed at me. I put the camera back in the case, and then one of the girls whose turn it was to sit out, ask 'Coach, teach me how to take pictures and I will do it" - so I sent everything on auto-auto, showed her how to zoom, and the girls had a blast doing that, they passed the camera around as each girl had her turn on the bench, and I ended up with over a 1000 shots which I would never have gotten. The down side is that now for the first time, I am actually in some of the shots - but its a great way to get a lot of decent pictures. Got a great bat-2-ball, got one of the funniest slides you ever saw, some good pitching shots, a lot of silliness as well, but lots of pictures.