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Baseball Photography Tips For Better Baseball Photos -- From Little League to Big LeagueWhile it's fun to look at baseball photos in newspapers and magazines, you don't have to be a world-famous photojournalist to take exciting baseball pictures of your favorite team, its players, and the drama and elegance that is baseball. You can do it too. All you need is some baseball photography tips.What about equipment? The good news is that you don't need a 600mm lens and a ten-frame-per-second motordrive SLR like the "Hot Shots" have. Of course, heavy artillery like this can help, but you can take great baseball pictures with just about any camera. Here's how...
1. Get as close to the action as you can.Wherever possible -- in big stadium or sandlot seats -- try to nearly fill the frame with your subject rather than have him or her show up as a distant speck.How close is close enough? The closer the better. Following our "Inverse Access Law," you know that you probably can get right on the sidelines -- or in the first row of seats -- at a sandlot, Little League, or high-school game. For college games, semi-pro, or spring-training Big League games, you can usually get pretty close -- especially if you apply some added charm or "weight." If you're an NYI student, your NYI Press Pass can provide this added "weight." With or without the pass, if you have any trouble getting close to the action at these games, we advise that