Collision

Baseball season's started. So I think I'll post some baseball pix this week.

Lansing's Ryan Noda and Kevin Smith collide after Smith captures a Nick Yarnall (Great Lakes Loons) popup in short left field--from yesterday's game at Lansing's Cooley Law School Stadium.

Original photo here. 476 game photos here.

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A camera note: This photo kinda shows both the strengths and weaknesses of the Oly OM-D EM-1 Mk II with the 40-150 mm f/2.8. This is a fairly severe crop of the original, and came out reasonably sharp. But I've lost some detail I'd likely have gotten with my D500 (using my 300 mm f/4.0 lens, probably), if I still had that setup. Some of the detail's lost to the shorter lens-equivalence; some's lost to the smaller sensor.

With my previous setup--a D300 with the 300 mm lens--I'd not have got the sequence that includes this photo. It just didn't have the reflexes to find the focus that quickly.

These things are tradeoffs, folks. I'm satisfied with the change, but not blind to the costs.