{"id":4136,"date":"2010-05-30T11:45:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T18:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2010-05-30T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T18:51:29","slug":"balancing-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=4136","title":{"rendered":"Balancing Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/maddysphotosblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/balancing-act.html\"><img src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_3UJPD320dFA\/TAGOOWy-KBI\/AAAAAAAAAF8\/-vfxTXhCd2E\/s200\/SCIFL_May2010_380.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>(click photo for original blog post)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>From the blog at Maddy&#8217;s Photos:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This past May 23rd I dropped by Santa Fe Springs, California, to photograph a SCIFL (Southern California Independent Fastpitch League) weekend tournament. Digital cameras have revolutionalized photography, with ever improving equipment available. However, it&#8217;s also a balancing act &#8212; wanting the newer technology that is better or faster &#8212; while at the same time, having the equipment that is battle tested and reliable. At the shoot this past weekend, I was armed with the old and the new. I had my trusty, &#8220;steady Eddie&#8221; D200 with which I&#8217;ve taken thousands of shots over the past few years, along with their newer, faster, D300s to try out. I was looking forward to testing out the new Nikon, billed to be faster, the better to capture the talented, and ever-increasingly faster players that I photograph. It is faster, to be sure, but I was disappointed that it malfunctioned in its first use, and prevented me from sharing all of the shots I took that day. Looks like this new Nikon could have used a bit more beta testing. In the end, the balancing act was won by &#8220;steady Eddie&#8221;, my D200, which produced the photos shown in my latest gallery of shots. Tried and true, hope you enjoy &#8220;Eddie&#8217;s&#8221; work (and mine).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maddysphotos.com\/Sports\/Fastpitch\/2010-SCIFL-May\/12355576_jfyiv#882857542_xvukv\"><strong>Click here to view the Gallery of photos<\/strong><\/a> from the SCIFL league weekend at Santa Fe Springs, California, May 22-23, 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maddysphotos<\/strong> can be found on Facebook.  Click logo below to &#8220;Become a Fan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Maddys-Photos\/182089733604\"><img src=\"http:\/\/badge.facebook.com\/badge\/182089733604.3325.336856563.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To visit the fastpitch galleries at her main photo website, click the banner below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maddysphotos.com\/Sports\/Fastpitch\"><br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.maddysphotos.com\/photos\/356390575_JvsjQ-O.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click photo for original blog post) From the blog at Maddy&#8217;s Photos: This past May 23rd I dropped by Santa Fe Springs, California, to photograph a SCIFL (Southern California Independent Fastpitch League) weekend tournament. Digital cameras have revolutionalized photography, with ever improving equipment available. However, it&#8217;s also a balancing act &#8212; wanting the newer technology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,12,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}