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2013 NIAA Northern Region Division 1 Playoff Baseball… Galena vs. Carson

The weather has finally come and dropped a bunch of water on the high school baseball tournament fields in Northern Nevada… which caused some creative scheduling with today’s games, several having to be moved due to unplayable conditions… tonight Galena hosted Carson at Carson’s Ron McNutt field (for those of you that don’t know… Coach McNutt is now coaching at Galena… so a bit of a homecoming for Coach McNutt…)

Galena ended their season in a four way tie for second place with a 16-6 record and entered the playoffs, due to the tie-break system in the 5th spot.  Carson ended in 8th with a 7-15 record.  Tonight’s game went to Galena who will face Spanish Springs tomorrow in the next round of the playoffs… Check out the NIAA Site for the full bracket….

Something a little different tonight… I’ve been learning about time lapse photography and thought I’d give it a try… this is a 1:43 “movie” from the warmups and the entire game tonight… I’ve gotta do some more research regarding the players… but the sky is quite cool until it gets dark… then it’s just… well… dark 🙂

And here are some additional shots from the night… no particular order… 🙂  There are many many more in the galleries from the season.  Please contact me with any questions regarding the galleries.  Thanks fellas for another season!

130508_Carson High Baseball Playoffs_Casey batting 130508_Carson High Baseball Playoffs_Charlie pitching 130508_Carson High Baseball Playoffs_Dom sliding under 130508_Carson High Baseball Playoffs_Luke bunting 130508_Galena High Baseball Playoffs 2013_Tockey Pitching 130508_Galena High Baseball Playoffs_First base safe 130508_Galena High Baseball Playoffs_Hitting 130508_Galena High Baseball Playoffs_Jones Hitting

2013 Carson Douglas High School Baseball… mid season tournament

It’s “mid season” time… Spring Break… well… if you’re Washoe County… Carson and Douglas had their Spring Break last week… So goes the majority, so goes the schedule… Spanish Springs is hosting a Spring Break Tournament this week… Day One, originally scheduled for Monday got pushed out 24 hours due to the snow on the fields (thank you!)… Play resumed Tuesday afternoon/evening at Carson High and Spanish Springs….

Carson hosted Douglas for the first game at Carson High… Here are a few shots from the game… I tried something “new”… not sure what I think… I’m not sure if many of you caught the photo that the Nevada Appeal ran awhile back of Tim Lincecum of the SF Giants… this is the same “technique”… if you can call it that… NO Photoshop here, absolutely NONE, this is all in camera… This done in Photoshop would appear much different, less “ghosting” for lack of a better term… (Check out Custom Collages to see an example of that… click here scroll to the bottom…).  It’s something different… I’m gonna continue playing with it… I have some ideas on how to use it a little differently that may give me better results… Stay tuned!

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2013 Galena High Baseball vs. Douglas

I’m back posting to the blog! 🙂  Been out to games lately (adding to the galleries…) but just not posting to the blog, I’ve been working on a project for our old time studio in Monterey, CA (Doc Wenzel’s Old Time Portraits) that consumed a lot of time last week… just “implemented” it on Monday this week….

I made the trek up to Galena today to shoot the Galena Douglas game… and just as I figured it was a great game!  This was the second Galena game I’ve been to which ended with a walk off home run to end the game… there’s more to the story though… it’s been the same player in both games…!  This time I got it! 🙂 Go Ben!

SUPER windy & rainy… that’s the beauty of baseball photos, you can’t really tell that, they wear caps! Also with a little overcast the harsh shadows on the faces go away… makes for “better” lighting, even though it was a “yucky” day there’s “better” light so possibly “better” photos…

Here’s some action from the day…

Douglas catcher Caleb Foster ready to make the throw to first for an out….
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Jimmy King swinging for a hit.
130404_Douglas_instaimage_Baseball_Hit 2 Dillon Lopez added several hits to make this a game!130404_Douglas_instaimage_Baseball_HitDouglas’ “workhorse” pitcher Kyle Johnson… great quote in the RGJ from Coach Jacobsen!
130404_Douglas_instaimage_Baseball_Pitcher Kyle Starting pitcher Nathan Barry for Galena.130404_Galena_instaimage_Baseball_first pitch Relief pitcher Dylan Tockey.130404_Galena_instaimage_Baseball_pitch… and after a BUNCH of bench “posturing” from both sides… visits to the mound, chats with batters… we ended the game with this series…

I wonder what Coach McNutt said to Ben Barnard… must have been good…130404_Galena_instaimage_Baseball_Home Run talk… it lead to this…130404_Galena_instaimage_Baseball_Home Run… which lead to this!  Great shot Ben!130404_Galena_instaimage_Baseball_Home Run Celebration

2013 Galena High Baseball vs. Carson…

The Grizzlies hosted Carson Tuesday for the first of their series… it started out looking like it was going to be quite a game, runs scoring, one team scores, the other answers… then we got to the 4th inning… Carson opened with three runs and the Galena flood gates opened with 9 runs.  The game ended in the bottom of the 5th inning with a Ben Barnard grand slam to put the game in the books 17-6!

The series continues at Carson Thursday evening under the lights, 6:00 First pitch.  The game is a White out for Carson with a gate promo for wearing white.  Get out and support your team for an evening game at Carson High.

Here are a few shots from the 3:45 PM game at Galena…

The ball going out… I usually get it coming in… 🙂 this series in the gallery has both…130326_Carson_instaimage_Baseball_Dom at Bat… it’s JUST about there…130326_Galena_instaimage_Baseball_Catcher Is he safe? Is he out?130326_Galena_instaimage_Baseball_dive to first130326_Galena_instaimage_Baseball_Ben Hit

2013 Carson High Baseball vs. Wooster…

BEAUTIFUL weather today in Carson City!!  I’m not going to say anymore about it for fear of  the weather gods ruining what we have… 😉

The Senators hosted the Wooster Colts today… There was a new “atmosphere” in the dugout today… nice to see/hear!  Hopefully it will continue.  The Senators grabbed a win today and travel to Wooster Tuesday.

Just two shots from today’s game, there are more in the gallery…

Joe saw some action today behind the plate… I love when I can get these shots with a clear view of his eyes!130316_Carson_instaimage_Baseball_Joe Catch Zak was right on the money with the throw from home… makes Tyler’s job of sticking his hand down there in front of those metal cleats easy, right? 🙂 130316_Carson_instaimage_Baseball_TV Out at Second

2013 Carson High Softball & Baseball… March 14, 2013

The Lady Senators hosted McQueen this afternoon in a 13-12 bottom of the 7th inning RBI thriller!  Bailey Allen drove in the winning run on a hit to deep right-centerfield!  A fun game to watch for sure!

Here are a few shots from the game.130314_Carson_instaimage_Sofball_Pitch-2 130314_Carson_instaimage_Sofball_Pitch 130314_Carson_instaimage_Softball_BAThrow 130314_Carson_instaimage_Softball_Catch 130314_Carson_instaimage_Softball_Coach

The Baseball team hosted North Valleys at 6:00 PM… not a good result for the fellas tonight… They got behind early and made a good rally but couldn’t put it together in the bottom of the 7th with the bases loaded….

Here’s a shot of the field tonight… shot with my iPhone… panoramic mode… not too bad!130314_Carson_instaimage_Baseball_Night GameThese were all before the sun went down completely… gotta work fast for that sunlight!130314_Carson_instaimage_Baseball_Casey Hit 130314_Carson_instaimage_Baseball_ZH 130314_Carson_instaimage_Baseball_TJ Hit

2013 Carson Douglas Baseball… Game 1 of 4…

The Mike Bearman Memorial Baseball Tournament concluded today… Carson hosted Douglas for their evening game… (previously scheduled at Reed…).  As my normal fashion, I’ll leave the “reporting” to the newspaper guys… but Douglas won 11-1 in six innings…. This game concluded a two day double header each day tournament for each of the teams…

Here are some photos from the game… (more “follies” at the bottom of the post…)

130309_Carson_instaimage_Baseball_Out at Home 130309_Carson_instaimage_Baseball_Safe at Third 130309_Douglas_instaimage_Baseball_Cale Hit 130309_Douglas_instaimage_Baseball_Caleb Catch 130309_Douglas_instaimage_Baseball_Luke Pitch Nolan didn’t even flinch… so much so that at first I didn’t know exactly what had happened… he was trotting off to first, I had to check the photo… 🙂130309_Douglas_instaimage_Baseball_Take one for the TeamWith six more scheduled home night games for the Senators I’ve got some work to do on getting the white balance “right”… I’m not happy with it… so stay tuned… if you’re not familiar with what white balance is… Your camera is making a decision as to what “white” is… for the most part, Auto White Balance works pretty well… but the lights on the field can cause a great deal of variety of color and temperature of the colors… so the photos can come out looking different that what we might think it really looks like… there are in camera adjustments that can be made as well as software adjustments after in the computer… I like getting it “right” in camera… Next Thursday is the first of the six home night games… I’ll be working on it. 🙂