I did something that I have never done with hockey last night. I turned off the motor drive on the camera and wend single shot. It made me focus more, anticipate the play, and not be trigger happy. Lighting was brutal. I ended up going with ISO 6400 on my 5DmkII.
All of these were shot with a 5Dmk2, ISO 6400 on sRAW1 and processed in Lightroom. My first time using the sRAW feature as well. Camera was set to TV mode (either 500, 640, or 800 depending on the rink as there were games on two sheets), as the lighting was patchy due to lots of burned out lights.
All very nice... great colors and action. You've done a real sweet job of getting the action of the save AND the puck in the shot here... well done. Only nit is the horizons on 5, 6, and 7.
Thanks for the comments. I sometimes struggle with the horizons when dealing with an elevated shooting position and into the corners where the horizons are not always easy to tell.
I am mostly impressed with the ISO 6400 on those shots. They are definitely useable, even for parent sales!!!
Andy, nice job. I struggle as well with horizons. If the goal is in the shot, I go with the vertical of the goal post. Where horizons get weird for me is when I am shooting over the glass near an end zone face-off dot an talking a shot of a player skating through the neutral zone over by the far boards. I find that in this situation that using the plumb of the glass stanchions gives the player the look of skating downhill. If I use the the horizontal of the boards the player is skating level but the stanchions angle a little bit like a backslash. (I was actually going to post an image last week asking for feedback on how to "level" it)
Anyway, nice pictures. The ISO 6400 is impressive. When you coming to the Ice Cube?
Dave - I was hoping to make it to the Cube this weekend, but my son gave me the 'don't go daddy' on Thursday night, so I decided to make it a family weekend, especially since I did not see him on Friday at all. I should be there before the New Year, but if not, definitely in January.
