78/365 buds and baseball

We have 3 trees in our backyard. Two are pine trees and the other is what I think is a dogwood. It's finally started budding this week.




I got a few questions about the baseball pictures I posted yesterday so I thought I'd answer them here instead of trying to get back to each person individually. I am thankful for the fence-we would have been hit more than once if it wasn't there. But it is difficult to shoot through. I can't follow him as he runs the bases {except from 1st to 2nd} and when he's fielding if he moves too far one way or another, I lose him because the fence gets in the way. I stand right up next to the fence and put the lens right in front of it, after finding a good spot and angle. I do sometimes get the fence in the shot around the outside of the photo but if I leave enough room I am able to crop it off, as was the case in yesterday's shots. I edited yesterday's post to include the camera settings. Generally, I try to keep the shutter speed at least 1/400 {I prefer higher still} to stop action and get sharp images, even if that means upping the iso. I only had it at 1/250 for the batting photos and you can see that his bat and the ball are blurry in the 2nd and 3rd shots. I should have upped both iso and shutter speed for those.

I've been shooting baseball/softball for 2 years now and love it. It took a lot of practice to really get the hang of it and figure out what settings work well. Hope that helps. Any other questions? Feel free to ask!