Bantam hockey action...

tjk60

This place is an old, refurbished, then old again hockey rink in the middle of nowhere Michigan. the lights weren't to bad, so no strobes.... Exif is in there, some hi ISO stuff D700, 300mm f/2.8

1). Sportrait:


2). One for the good guys!


3). Monster spends a lot of the game diving after pucks


4). Two for the good guys!


5). Denied!


6). Play 'em tight!


7). Nice check!


8). Denied again!


9). I just liked the perspective


10). Who me?


11). Same team! Same team!

run_kmc

Hockey is hard. Nicely done.

jmphotocraft

Great stuff. What do you use for noise reduction? ISO5600 is up there! These look clean. Could I see a 100% crop of an unprocessed photo showing some of the blue uniform and skin? Thanks!

tjk60

jmphotocraft wrote:

Great stuff. What do you use for noise reduction? ISO5600 is up there! These look clean. Could I see a 100% crop of an unprocessed photo showing some of the blue uniform and skin? Thanks!

I use Noise Ninja and the downloaded profiles for my D700. Here is an EXTREME example: #10 from above.

jmphotocraft

nice, thanks! I haven't even attempted more than 6400 on my 5DII.

BMW Kurt

Reminds me of the 4:00AM Sunday morning games when my son played!!

thezoomer

Hello Tim!!

Great shots, as usual. How do you get your photos so vivid and colorful? I shoot hockey and my photos are not close to your output. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Louis
thezoompro.smugmug.com

tjk60

thezoomer wrote:

Hello Tim!!

Great shots, as usual. How do you get your photos so vivid and colorful? I shoot hockey and my photos are not close to your output. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

Louis
thezoompro.smugmug.com

Tell me what you shoot, and where you shoot from. Do you shoot through the glass? From the bench? Over the glass? What camera, what lenses do you have?

I don't do a bunch special here, just Auto ISO, EV +1 - +1 2/3, AP mode, no saturation push, but these did have noise reduction as I indicated...

thezoomer

Thanks for your reply. I shoot with a D2h, 80-200/2.8. Always in manual mode, custom WB using ice as reference, but starting to use Phoxle filter. ISO 3200 and Noise Ninja. No other post processing. Most times I shoot thru the glass.

Louis

tjk60

well shooting TTG is a bit tougher, you'll need to adjust a black point on almost every pic. I use LR2 to PP, and can sync 1,000s of pics very quickly. Take one pic, change the black level (maybe a lot!) and see if you get better color.

Feel free to post one here or link me to your web site...

thezoomer

Thanks!! I was hoping I could get away with minimal PP, but it seems that this idea isn't realistic. I'llgive Lightroom a try. 30 day free trial should give me enough time to figure out how to use it in conjunction with Noise Ninja and if its worth buyingfor $300.

Thanks again!!

HockeyFan

Great shots. I shoot a lot of hockey, but my arena shots are better because of the lighting. Rink shots are so challenging. Your shots, obviously in a rink under probably the similar lighting challenges, are awesome. You have done an outstanding job.

cmkultradome

tjk60 wrote:

well shooting TTG is a bit tougher, you'll need to adjust a black point on almost every pic. I use LR2 to PP, and can sync 1,000s of pics very quickly. Take one pic, change the black level (maybe a lot!) and see if you get better color.

Feel free to post one here or link me to your web site...

Tim-
I also notice how nice your color is in all of your photos. I use Photoshop (as a novice) for my post processing and play with curves and levels. I don't know that I ever officially set the black point. Can you give me a quick tutorial on setting the black point and then is it possible to run this as a batch in Photoshop. Thanks.

Stephanie

tjk60

cmkultradome wrote:

Tim-
I also notice how nice your color is in all of your photos. I use Photoshop (as a novice) for my post processing and play with curves and levels. I don't know that I ever officially set the black point. Can you give me a quick tutorial on setting the black point and then is it possible to run this as a batch in Photoshop. Thanks.

Stephanie

If you play with levels and curves you are probably doing it w/o knowing what I'm talking about. Easy way is to use the black eye dropper in levels and click on something black. easy peasy lemonsqueezy

I use LR to set the black clipping and then sync the rest of the shoot.

To do as batch in PS? Hmm I'll have to think about it.

I guess you can adjust many if they are about the same. This would be the equivalent of what I'm doing in Lightroom:

Record an action that does a Image|Adjustment|Levels and enter a value for the shadow adjustment level that just barely buries the blacks past the left side of the histogram.

Run that action as part of your batch....

BradfordBenn

Nice shots, the noise remover was more impactful than I thought it would be.

tjk60

BradfordBenn wrote:

Nice shots, the noise remover was more impactful than I thought it would be.

Great tool when needed and not over used