Trying Different Things

 

Last week I was at my Cole’s baseball game and I saw a mother photographing one of the players (I assume it was her son that she was photographing) through the fence.  You can see the fence in the background; it is your normal chain-link fence.  I immediately thought:  “Doesn’t she know that the fence grades will show-up in her frame?”  Then, I thought:  “That might make for a most interesting special effect.”

So, I then proceeded to copy her.  I probably shot 100 or so images through the fence.  I was using my trusty Nikon 28-300mm and I was racked out to 300mm for most of the shots.  Additionally, I really wanted to isolate on the batter so I usually shot at or near a wide-open aperture, f/5.6 to f/6.3.

Image my surprise when I opened the images in Lightroom and I saw none of the fence in the image.  Rather, I had a good isolated image of the batter.  The first photo is a full frame of the shot and the second image is a 100% crop of that image.

The point of today’s post is not to shoot through fences at sporting events, rather, it is to try different things—you never really know what you are going to get

Enjoy.

Camera settings:  Nikon D4, 28-300mm f/3.5~3\5.6, ISO 1000, f/6.3 at 1/750^th of a seconds.

Post Processing:  

Lightroom 4—applied Portrait preset during import, set white and black points and increased contrast, clarity and vibrance.