Pee Wee AAA Hockey Tournament II

[cstewart]

Here are a few more from our Pee Wee AAA tourney last week. Again, all shot at 3200 ISO, f2.8-3.5 (depending on which end of ice), 1/500, RAW, evaluative metering, all of these shots from up above stands. C+C appreciated. If you are really keen (or really bored!) and want to see all the shots from our 5 games in the tourney, please head to www.cjscons.com/peewee and scroll down to bottom right of page. Feel free to browse our other game shots as well.

1. Puck Battle
http://www.cjscons.com/pwabraves/feb7/content/bin/images/large/IMG_4669.jpg

2. Glove save!
http://www.cjscons.com/pwabraves/feb7/content/bin/images/large/IMG_4701.jpg

3. Hammered!
http://www.cjscons.com/pwabraves/feb8G1/content/bin/images/large/IMG_5752.jpg

4. Beating the "D"
http://www.cjscons.com/pwabraves/feb8G1/content/bin/images/large/IMG_5702.jpg

5. Centre Ice Rush
http://www.cjscons.com/pwabraves/feb8G2/content/bin/images/large/IMG_6463.jpg

6. Collision aftermath
http://www.cjscons.com/pwabraves/feb8G2/content/bin/images/large/IMG_6424.jpg

7. GOAL!
http://www.cjscons.com/pwabraves/feb9/content/bin/images/large/IMG_7063.jpg

8. Battling the double team
http://www.cjscons.com/pwabraves/feb9/content/bin/images/large/IMG_6856.jpg

[Darsk47]

They're nicely timed shots. Curious....what did you do in the PP for these? Some looked oversharpened and have the whites blown.
Darcy

[ajbalazic]

Super action shots! You've got a great feel for the game. These look very good for ISO3200, but I imagine they wouldn't print very well at any sort of enlarged size. Have you tried? #2 is smashing! I love goalie shots and this one's a beauty.

[cstewart]

Darsk...I use Lightroom and usually I bump up the exposure so that things look in balance (ie getting ice white but not too white)...I seem to tend toward bumping things up too much and I struggle with that each time (need to either better calibrate monitor or get new one!). I also do some sharpening, although ususally not too much. Again, my older monitor may be deceiving me in this regard as I have posted images elsewhere that others have said are oversharpened. I will also tweak the noise reduction sliders a bit (these seem to work well) and minor tweaks to white balance as needed. Thanks for the clues.

Alan...I have printed many of these up to an 8.5 x 11 size (including one from my other PW Tournament thread) and generally the results are very good at that size. I have not tried anything larger than that as I think it would be too grainy. I may try with some of these though just to see. Yep I like the goalie shot too as it is my son!

Thanks for the input guys.

Cheers!

Chris