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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Five: Using the frame to define ideas > In play, Coors Field, Denver, Colorado, 2014
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14-JUL-2014

In play, Coors Field, Denver, Colorado, 2014

Most photos of sports action are made from close range, in order to express both emotional and athletic content. However in this case, I was seated in a far corner of the stadium, and was not equipped with the specialized long telephoto lenses required for most sports action photography. Instead, I take advantage of this moment when the entire baseball diamond itself is involved in the action during a game between the Colorado Rockies (in white) and the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers (in gray). I easily embrace the entire scene as a long horizontal image, using my frame to tell the story of a particular moment in the game involving at least eleven people -- players, coaches, and umpires. We see a Rockies base runner about to touch first base while the Dodger fielder awaits a throw. Meanwhile, we see another Rockies base runner sprawled on the ground at second base while a Dodger fielder looms over him. Two umpires in black intently study the situations at first and second base, while two Rockies coaches, along with two Dodger infielders and the Dodger pitcher watch the chaos unfolding around them. A slice of the 50,000 spectators in attendance make up the background and foreground. The white foul line leads us into the action from the lower right hand corner of the frame, while the illuminated panels of advertising slicing across the top of the image echo the horizontal sweep of the baseball diamond below it. Where is the ball itself at this moment? It is most likely in flight, although it is too small to be visible in this shot. What we see here instead are the rhythms of the game itself on simultaneous display, placed, spaced, and paced within a long horizontal frame that displays the action before us.

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Phil Douglis06-Sep-2014 19:22
Thank you, Stephanie, for appreciating my intentions here. My vantage point and framing offers my viewers a chance to become spectators vicariously.
Stephanie05-Sep-2014 23:31
I really like this overall view of the game and crowded stands! B V
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