Suggestions for Indoor Hockey Photo's

[pete_molino]

<p>any suggestions to a ami-noob for exposure and settings for indoor hockey action? Mostly darker, flourescent lights and poor angles with lots of distracting background noise. Any suggestions are WELCOME!</p>

[Matt Laur]

<p>It will help a lot if you mention what camera and lens(es) you're using.</p>

[shoppix]

<p>High ISO (like 2000 or 2500+), F2.8 aperture (just need constant f2.8 aperture type lens. on the pricier side), and around 1/500 shutter speed. Set it all manually. Take a few shots and see what you get. Make adjustments from there - Llke ISO up or shutter spd down. the lower the shutter speed the better you will have to pan with a player. Might take a game to get use to the flow and how to follow with a camera. A little different than just watching a game!!!<br>

A 75-300 3.5-5.6 zoom will not get you good results because that aperture changes as you zoom, letting in less light, equals darker images, more noise. As Mattt said what do you have to use? Maybe you would want to rent a pro 70-200 f2.8 for the weekend or few days to get some good shots. I've used Borrow Lenses before & very good. this lens would be pretty inexpensive to rent.<br>

Steve</p>

[walter_degroot]

<p>let me mention a article in a photo magazine several years ago about the Official photographer at the nassau( LI NY) stadium. He had fixed high powered strobes and remotly controlled Nikon slr's<br>

He talked about the problems of lighting in a large area<br>

BTW he also mentioned that in one season he "only" had three cameras smashed as they were set up to get a clear view of the action. ONLY three? even slight damage would be a disaster for the rest of us.</p>

[anthony_lauro]

<p>I shoot a TON of hockey at low light arenas. However, I don't use strobes. I use an Olympus E3 @ 1/320- 1/500 f2 35-100mm and at iso 1250 and have no problems.<br>

I shoot above the glass and sometimes behind the bench, or even on the ice :)</p>

<p><img src="http://www.aplphoto.com/Sports/Hockey/Flyers-Alumni-vs-Steel-Ice/P2072516filtered/473229835_B6urg-M-3.jpg" alt="" /><br>

<img src="http://www.aplphoto.com/Sports/Hockey/CHA-Leafs-vs-Penguins/CHA200903070013/487327440_bnEbb-M-2.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /><br>

<img src="http://www.aplphoto.com/Sports/Hockey/Lehigh-Valley-Comets-Alumni/Comets-Alumni010/751463089_rcXU6-M-1.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></p>

[viewthroughmylens]

<p>My 50D settings have usually been ISO 3200 and 1/640 through the glass at the college arena.. the high school arena I go up to 1/800 shutter with more light. Friday this week will be my first game shooting with a 7D instead of 50D and can't wait to see what I can get. I think 100mm is too short for hockey, especially if you're shooting over the glass, but would be good if you were in a corner through the glass.</p>

<p><img src="http://www.viewthroughmylens.net/Galleries/UMDWomensHockey/201011/VSMinnesotaGame1/UMDWomenGame1VsGophersTM12.jpg" alt="" width="576" height="720" /><br>

<img src="http://www.viewthroughmylens.net/Galleries/UMDWomensHockey/201011/VsMinnesotaGame2/UMDWomenGame2VsMinnesotaTM8.jpg" alt="" width="720" height="576" /><br>

<img src="http://www.viewthroughmylens.net/Galleries/Sports/DuluthClydesdales/vsThunderBay/ClydesdalesVsThunderBayTM8.jpg" alt="" width="720" height="576" /></p>

[anthony_lauro]

<p>Yeah but my 100mm is a 2x crop so that gives me a 200mm f2.0 lens.<br>

Throw on a converter and I get 280mm @ f2.8.....<br>

Nice shots though.</p>

[viewthroughmylens]

<p>If that's the case.. then the photos above should be cropped or shot tighter.. lots of wasted space on them that doesn't need to be there.</p>

[anthony_lauro]

<p>Yeah I am not allowed to crop them. Local editor wants to do that as he usually does a 2-3 page spread. Papers that run one photo I crop, etc.<br>

? Why would you be shooting college at a slower shutter speed? Is the lighting that bad? I would think they use the local rinks like HS's do. At least they do in the PA/ NJ area.<br>

Here is what I would have done:<br />#1 I like as is, but that is me personally</p>

<p><img src="http://www.aplphoto.com/Sports/Hockey/CHA-Leafs-vs-Penguins/Hockey-1/1086515397_7o9bw-M.jpg" alt="" /> <br>

<img src="http://www.aplphoto.com/Sports/Hockey/Lehigh-Valley-Comets-Alumni/Hockey-2/1086517471_nCqn3-M.jpg" alt="" /></p>

<p>Here is another that was cropped in:<br>

<img src="http://www.aplphoto.com/Sports/Hockey/Lehigh-Valley-Comets-Alumni/Hockey-3/1086520477_WiaMi-M.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="450" /></p>

 

[viewthroughmylens]

<p>I've been shooting college at 1/640 because of the glass that's in the old arena.. new arena opening December 30 will fix that.. as will my buying an EOS 7D yesterday. If I shoot over the glass 1/800 is easy but not so much when it's through the glass. We'll see how the 7D improves that Friday night</p>

[craig_shearman1]

<p>I don't shoot hockey but I do shoot figure skating in a hockey rink, with a Nikon D200 at ISO 1600 and a 70-200 2.8. I shoot raw, wide open on aperture priority, and set the exposure comp to open up 1 or 1.3 stops to overcome the whiteness of the ice fooling the meter. Shutter speed usually works out to somewhere around 1/180 to 1/250. Even with that, I usually go into LCH in Nikon Capture and drag the right pointer a little to the left to brighten things up. One guy I spoke with recently suggested just going with the straight meter reading for the sake of keeping the shutter speed higher, then doing all the exposure correction in post, but I haven't tried that yet.</p>

[rice1]

<p>don't forget to set custom WB.</p>

[slapshots]

<p>Here are some photos taken with a sony A55 with a 70-200 f2.8 lens. Is this a white balance problem? I took the pictures on the generic sports setting. Any suggestions to fix?<br>

<img src="../photo/12060317" alt="" /><br>

<img src="../photo/12060315" alt="" /><br>

<a href="../photo/12060315">http://www.photo.net/photo/12060315</a><br>

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[slapshots]

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