HS hockey from weekend

cmkultradome

Shot some hockey this past weekend in a rink that only has glass behind the goals. Plus - you don't have to worry about dirty, foggy glass. Minus - must pay very close attention to where the puck is at all times. Lighting is still pretty dismal. I was shooting with a 40D, pushing the ISO at 3200 and still couldn't get the shutter speeds I would like. Here are a few of my favorites.

Stephanie

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#2



#3 Not the greatest photo but a personal favorite - my son; he's a freshman playing varsity & had his first high school goal in this game


#4



#5


#6


#7

ian408

Some nice action shots. About my only complaint is they look a bit OE.

tjk60

Stephanie, NICE JOB, but Mo---om, where is the goal?

I think a couple are a bit to white maybe, but #2, 4 and 6 are my favs.

psssssst: Straighten a few out (look at board lines in #5...)

cmkultradome

ian408 wrote:

Some nice action shots. About my only complaint is they look a bit OE.

Thanks Ian - I do struggle with this. With the dismal lighting I always worry about my pictures looking too dark so I push the histogram way to the right. I know the ice usually looks blown out but I like the players faces better light than dark. Before I print I have been Photoshopping and doing an adjustment curves layer on just the ice.

Stephanie

cmkultradome

tjk60 wrote:

Stephanie, NICE JOB, but Mo---om, where is the goal?

I think a couple are a bit to white maybe, but #2, 4 and 6 are my favs.

psssssst: Straighten a few out (look at board lines in #5...)

Believe me I heard it a hundred times. The problem was that I was tracking the player that was carrying the puck down the ice expecting him to take the shot (he is not known for his passing). Don't you know it, this time he decides to pass to my son who was in front of the net. You could say I got a picture of the assist.

(Sorry for the obnoxious watermark & I know the horizon is off again)


As far as the white - see response to Ian above (I also think my monitor isn't helping matters or my eyes) Another area I struggle with is horizons (I don't use a monopod, these are all handheld) and I try to fix them before printing. I was not shooting level at this rink because I was actually in the stands shooting downward, I don't know if that contributes more to my erratic horizons. In #5 however I have a question because the background of this shot is the corner of the rink - the boards were not straight across in this case but curved at this point. How do you handle that - what do you use as a guideline??

Thanks for the comments and helpful pointers.

Stephanie

tjk60

cmkultradome wrote:

Believe me I heard it a hundred times. The problem was that I was tracking the player that was carrying the puck down the ice expecting him to take the shot (he is not known for his passing). Don't you know it, this time he decides to pass to my son who was in front of the net. You could say I got a picture of the assist.

(Sorry for the obnoxious watermark & I know the horizon is off again)


As far as the white - see response to Ian above (I also think my monitor isn't helping matters or my eyes) Another area I struggle with is horizons (I don't use a monopod, these are all handheld) and I try to fix them before printing. I was not shooting level at this rink because I was actually in the stands shooting downward, I don't know if that contributes more to my erratic horizons. In #5 however I have a question because the background of this shot is the corner of the rink - the boards were not straight across in this case but curved at this point. How do you handle that - what do you use as a guideline??

Thanks for the comments and helpful pointers.

Stephanie

See the seams in the boards? That would be my cue for straightening. Sometimes (rarely) this will be sightly wrong, but visually will look correct...

cmkultradome

tjk60 wrote:

See the seams in the boards? That would be my cue for straightening. Sometimes (rarely) this will be sightly wrong, but visually will look correct...

Tim -

Thanks, that makes sense. I see Todd from Port Huron just asked the same question in your thread. I also like landscape photography, I guess that's why I was so focused on thinking a horizontal reference line versus a vertical one.

Stephanie

ian408

cmkultradome wrote:

Thanks Ian - I do struggle with this. With the dismal lighting I always worry about my pictures looking too dark so I push the histogram way to the right. I know the ice usually looks blown out but I like the players faces better light than dark. Before I print I have been Photoshopping and doing an adjustment curves layer on just the ice.

Stephanie

I'd agree that the faces are more important than the ice.