Amherst Steele Varsity Baseball

Went out to the baseball field to shoot Amherst's baseball team.

WARNING CAMERA SETTINGS BELOW.

It was a really nice bright day with little cloud cover that afternoon which let me max out my shutter speed while staying at 200 ISO and shooting nearly wide open aperture wise. This was the first time i've shot baseball with my Tamron 70-200 f/2.8 since I upgraded from the stock Canon 70-300 f/4.5-5.5. Having only shot one other game ever, this was still a learning experience. Subtracting the extra 100mm really hurt me. I felt I was to far from the game due to the fact I was restricted by a fence which held me back pretty far from the action resulting me to crop a little to get tighter shots. After playing around with the aperture I found that shooting wide open wasn't necessary. I was getting decent compression on the back ground regardless of shooting from 2.8 to 3.2 or 3.5. What I found was that my tracking in my camera wasn't to great (which I already knew with a T2i). This caused me to get a lot of out of focus shots, so in retrospect, I could have shot at f/4. Because of this I'm probably going to bring my stock Canon lens to the next game just to test out the differences. Anyways, these were the shots I got

Here's the plan

If you saw my earlier post, you kinda know what this Huckberry Adventure grant is about. If not here's the run down. 

Huckberry is funding the next great adventure by giving away $1,000 dollars and a bunch of adventure gear from the people at Topo Designs, Poler (which I just bought a photography backpack from), Nemo, and Goal zero.  All they wanted was to hear my idea of a great adventure.

Alright, the plan is to walk / backpack from San Francisco, California to Portland, Oregon in one month. 

The trip is about 728 miles in length. This may change when we start to go in depth with the route we are taking, but that's an estimate according to Google Maps. Also according to Google it will take 239 hours to walk the length of the coast, although I don't know what pace that is.. soo yeah.  So here is the math on how we will do this trip.

     We have 720 miles to cover in 30 days. This gives up 24 miles of walking in one day, which is a little under a marathon. If we want 9 hours of sleep, (which who knows how Jet leg will hit us) this gives us 15 hours of being awake. if we want about 5 hours of rest throughout the day to eat, drink, go to the bathroom, prep for anything, site see or whatever, we will then have 10 hours of straight walking. 10 hours to walk. Therefore, if we want to make our 24 miles a day plan, we need to walk 2.4 miles every hour. I think this is very doable, even if we have to do it for a month straight. So in short,

2.4 mph for 10 hours with 5 hours of break & 9 hours of sleep for 30 days.

After going through Google Map's I have kinda estimated our day by day stops seen below. 

1. San Francisco to San Rafael

2. Outside of Santa Rosa

3. Healdsburg

4. Hopland

5. Ukiah

6. Past Willits

7. Route 101 Middle of Mandocine

8. Gaberbville

9. Bridgeville

10. Eureka

11. Redwood Forest

12. Redwood Forest

13. Crescent City

14. Brookings

15. Siskiyou Forest

16. Siskiyou Forest

17. Siskiyou Forest

18. Brandon

19. North bend- Coosbay

20. Oregon Dunes

21. Florence

22. Sisuslaw Forest

23. Junction City

24. Corvallis

25. Salem

26. McMinnville

27. Tigard

28. Portland

So when will I do this? Mid-June till mid-July.

Evan, Noah, and I get out of school towards the beginning/middle of May. So after that we will prep and work for some extra money for our plane ticket out to San Fran for the start of our trip in the middle of June. We will walk till we get to Portland & then we will fly back to Ohio by mid-July. 

& thats the plan as of now.