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 p.2 #3 · This weekend's youth hockey | |
dj dunzie wrote:
musclepics wrote:
These are pretty nice. The lighting is actually quite good, almost 1 stop better than where I recently shot, and the rink was brand new. I assume you were shooting thru the plexi too? That takes away about 2/3 stops of light and really affect sharpness where I've shot (again, nice new facilities).
Where do you like to plant yourself when using the 300mm lens?
Thanks for the comments... and yeah the lighting here in this rink is about as good as it gets for amateur rinks around here... I think ISO3200 was buying me around 1/400th to 1/800th all over the ice, so I sure won't complain about that. I actually shoot from the side of one of the player benches in this rink (which is easier when you're hired by that team to shoot  ) so I don't have to shoot through the plexi. The spinoff is I'm only getting faces coming out of the zone, and not in towards the goalies, but at the same time I can get the goalie faces which is nice. It also lets me get a pretty nice low angle at them. The 300 on FF is a decent length here too because I can get goalies and even into the corners a little, plus coming out towards the neutral zone... but what I lose is the stuff closer to the benches, unless I go for real tight expression shots (like #1).
Thanks for checking 'em out!
Ah yes, that makes all the difference not having to shoot behind the plexi.
I was getting 1/640s at ISO6400 (luckily the 1D3/FlexNR combo does it better than any other), and I suspect that without the plexi I would have been getting around 1/500s at ISO3200. One of the worst aspects of shooting behind plexi is the sickly colors, especially the way it affects skin tones... they have a bit of a greenish hue. It's very hard if not impossible to fix perfectly in post.
Luckily the new arena I shoot in is like this one in the fact you don't get the blue/red/pink cycling colors.
Sportraits are definitely the way to go with this type of photography for sure. If I was a parent, I would much rather have isolated images like these than a scrum of 5 players.
Although I think #5 and #12 would be very popular.
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Great series--good variety, nice sportraits and action, and you succeed at "isolation" even when you have 4 players in the shot! Colors/white balance are awesome as well. Does this arena have cycling lights? and if so, how do you beat 'em?
