Amateur Hockey and Amateur Hockey Photog (2)

[scot079]

First sports outing for the 1D3, AF is pretty impressive. Ambient light in the arena sucked...all photos ran thru noise ninja for noise reduction.

1. f/2.8 1/500 ISO 6400
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/scot079/20080203-7S8F9996-2.jpg

2. f/2.8 1/500 ISO 3200
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/scot079/20080203-7S8F9929.jpg

3. f/2.8 1/500 ISO 3200
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/scot079/20080203-7S8F9923.jpg

4. f/2.8 1/500 ISO 3200
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/scot079/20080203-7S8F9906.jpg

5. f/2.8 1/500 ISO 3200
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/scot079/20080203-7S8F9880.jpg

6. f/4 1/500 ISO 3200 flash fired
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264/scot079/20080203-7S8F9871.jpg

[hckyguy14]

These are excellent shots. Not much noise while using the high ISO too. That's awesome.

[Welby]

Good shots i really like number 4.

[DavidEB]

yup, good work going thru the glass. 5 is nice.

[joeman]

I'm really impressed with the noise performance. At least 90% of the rinks my son plays in have horrible lighting. I know of at least 3 that it is not worthwhile to even take my camera.

Did Noise Ninja really denoise your shots or is the camera really that good?

thanks

[scot079]

These are excellent shots. Not much noise while using the high ISO too. That's awesome.

Thanks, the mk III is a very impressive piece of gear.

Good shots i really like number 4.

me too

yup, good work going thru the glass. 5 is nice.

David, these photos aren't thru glass, does that mean they suck now?:-)

I'm really impressed with the noise performance. At least 90% of the rinks my son plays in have horrible lighting. I know of at least 3 that it is not worthwhile to even take my camera.

Did Noise Ninja really denoise your shots or is the camera really that good?

thanks

Joe, the ISO 6400 photos only looked bad when I zoomed in on the shadows/midtones. I was exposing for the ice, placing it's spike at the far right edge of the histogram and then I usually bumped it +.20 in PP.

Noise Ninja DID help with noise in the shadows especially the ISO 6400 shots, which I was hesitant to use, but excited to test @ the same time. PS-I was using the 1D3 ISO 6400 noise profile in NN.

[joeman]

Thanks for the info. This site is really helping me to get better quality photos at my son's games. Are you shooting M or Tv?

I just booked travel to go to Anaheim for the US Hockey regionals in early March and I only 2 more weekend series of games to hone my skills. Hope we don't spend the last day of the tournment at Disneyland ;)

[scot079]

M

Good luck Joe!

[verty]

great shots tho the white balance looks off