Hockey shots

Self Crit - Need to up the exposure. 70-200 f/2.8 on iso 1600. 1 hard thing i find with shooting hockey is if the glass isn't clean and dinged up from pucks you can't shoot through it

So I end up shooting through the penalty box

but cheers

hockey in dimly lit arenas is very difficult, at best. The action is far away and requires high shutter speeds, high ISO, a combination that doesn't yield what you hope for in those situations.

If you can shoot from the penalty box, you should definitely get better results.

mark

Faithless --

You're shooting from a good location, near the blue line, but this means that more than half the action is going away from you. Your posted shots are of player's rear ends. Watch for the offensive breakaway coming into neutral ice, and the defensive play at the blue line -- that will help you get pics with the players facing you. like >>>this<<< -- timing is everything.

Exposure is really tough. Some shots are too dark, the ice shouldn't be gray. Second and last shots are properly exposed, but can benefit from adjustment of the midtones & dark areas using curves in photoshop. You don't have "Image editing OK" so I don't want to post edits to your photos, but the attachemnt shows how I would adjust the last one (your fav...)

One problem with exposure is the auto modes Av, TV adjust based on what's in the frame. Shots with more ice and light jerseys will be darker, shots with more black hockey pants and dark jerseys will be lighter. None of your exposures end up the same, and none truly right. That's why M mode works for hockey.

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how do I make image editing ok?
Also all were out of camera jpeg was too lazy to edit them :P

Also I was shooting M 1/325 iso 1600 f/2.8
I found though the lighting wasn't evenely lit.

here's a quick workup with a little levels adjustment, smart sharpening in CS2 and white neutralizing via NIK

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Faithless wrote in post #2400058
how do I make image editing ok?
Also all were out of camera jpeg was too lazy to edit them :P

Also I was shooting M 1/325 iso 1600 f/2.8
I found though the lighting wasn't evenely lit.

try Av, where the camera chooses the shutter speed...