Mid-Con Tournament

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Had my first major assignment shooting the baseball tournament for the Conference. I guess one word to describe it would be frustrating.


I left work Wednsday and headed over to Macomb. Got in town about 11:30pm to find Torinn sitting on the couch watching a movie. All the stuff from his car was in my room (which was aprently everything he owned so I slep out on the couch.


The first day of shooting the next day with the Olympus E-Volt 500 was horrible. I had maybe 5 usable shots but nothing great. I want to blame the camera but I mostly blame my inexperience shooting baseball vs. other sports such as track or basketball (still need some work on that basketball). Track of course is my fave.

The second day of shooting went a lot better. Got a lot more action shots but still nothing great. In between games, I had to drive over to the library and put the pics on CD's. Had about 30-40 minutes. I got the CD's finished but the mid-con rep never got them so the sports department has to mail him the 2 CD's. Arrrg. Really wish I burt 2 copies so I could have some pics. I'd say day 2 was my best day.

Day 3- I finally got some knee pads. It was cloudy and rain was going to be comming soon. The championship game was pretty uneventfull. Oral Robberts is in a whole other league compared to the rest of the Mid-Con teams so they won as expected. Can't remember if it was day 2 or 3 but both benches cleared on this one play where a guy didn't tag up. Unfortunately, I have no pics. :\

Overall, think it could have gone a lot better. Would much rather have shot the track conference (which I was at too) but whatever, got some experience and that's what matters. Maybe It'll go better next time... if there is a next time.