Hockey - Custom balance Didn't Quite Work Out - HELP!!

Hi,

I read a few of the posts about shooting at a hockey arena and noted the following:

• shoot wide open (in my case F4.0)
  
• shutter speed around 500 - 640 (need ISO 2000 for this - no flash)
  
• set a custom WB by shooting the ice - before its clean and use that as a pic for the custom WB
  

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General_T wrote in post #13189301

1. shoot wide open (in my case F4.0)
   
2. shutter speed around 500 - 640 (need ISO 2000 for this - no flash)
   
3. set a custom WB by shooting the ice - before its clean and use that as a pic for the custom WB

1. Not necessary to shoot wide open; for the CWB shot, you should be shooting in shutter priority @ 1/60. Get a good exposure with as low an iso as possible and an aperture to make it work.

2. see above. 1/60 will minimize your opportunity to catch the lights cycling. A fast shutter and you could catch a light cycle; this usually casts a red tint onto your image thus throwing off the WB.

3. correct. pre-zamboni ice is whiter.

Your images are salvageable.

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1/60 with motion? How are you getting away from blurry images?

wolfden wrote in post #13190435
1/60 with motion? How are you getting away from blurry images?

1/60 for the test shot.

Hi Thanks,

Ok. I'll try the 1/60 for the test shot.

I know I can use the sliders to get the picture back in LR3.5 - but if everthing is working in the custom WB then hopefully the pic will expose properly and need a minimum of tint/temp correction?

Thanks

wolfden wrote in post #13190435
1/60 with motion? How are you getting away from blurry images?

The shot we're referring to here is for custom white balance....which in this case is a shot of the ice.

General_T wrote in post #13190609
I know I can use the sliders to get the picture back in LR3.5 - but if everthing is working in the custom WB then hopefully the pic will expose properly and need a minimum of tint/temp correction?

At ths point, just let LR use Auto for the WB on the RAW files and ignore the bad Custom WB you did for the JPEGs.

shoot wide open (in my case F4.0)
shutter speed around 500 - 640 (need ISO 2000 for this - no flash)
set a custom WB by shooting the ice - before its clean and use that as a pic for the custom WB


...agreed. Only shoot the white of the ice for the CWB image. That was a heck of a lot of green there...holy smokes!

As some said, shoot the test shot M at 1/60, also shut off your AF...only when setting custom WB.........
You could also just use a white index card or white computer paper to shoot at.