Ice Hockey - Blaze v Phoenix including Thwunkage!

[scott wiggins]

A few quick pics from tonight's game in Coventry versus the Manchester Phoenix. Blaze won 4-1 and need 6 more wins to take the league title.

1 - Sylvain Cloutier is denied by Manchester's Jason Wolfe
http://srwiggins.smugmug.com/photos/132809454-M.jpg

2 - Neal Martin lets a shot go...
http://srwiggins.smugmug.com/photos/132809457-M.jpg

3 - Trevor Koenig keeps Manchester's score down
http://srwiggins.smugmug.com/photos/132809463-M.jpg

4 - Barrie Moore
http://srwiggins.smugmug.com/photos/132809467-M.jpg

5 & 6 - Danny Stewart and Manchester's Peter Campbell have a bout of fisticuffs aka thwunkage
http://srwiggins.smugmug.com/photos/132809470-M.jpg

http://srwiggins.smugmug.com/photos/132809473-M.jpg

These were shot parameter 2 as I've been trying to sort the saturation out. Any C&C welcome.

Scott

[CDBlue]

Wow, all excellent shots. Love the sharpness, colour, composition/crop, etc. Great job.

[Jim7226]

As usual, Scott, more awesome photos. You do an excellent job capturing the action with such vivid colors.

[WannaLearn]

If I may ask; what was your workflow in processing this wonderful pics?

[scott wiggins]

I've covered most of it in my previous posts when asked but:

Manual levels correction
Auto curves
Noise Reduction
Sharpen in USM with 85, 1, 4

A couple also had the shadow/highlight command run as well, I think no 5 from memory.

[WannaLearn]

Well, that's excellent work there. Thanks for taking the time to cover it again. I'll check your other posts. Thanks!