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Subject: [OM] Re: Ice hockey photography
From: "Barry B. Bean" <bbbean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:26:06 -0600
I haven't shot hockey, but I've shot a lot of basketball in poorly lit gyms and 
baseball under fading daylight or inadequate lights. Here's a few tips.

1) Work with the coaches and refs to see if you can shoot from the bench or the 
unused half of the ice - get our from behind that plexiglass!

2) Don't worry about the 1/60 - if you're getting blurred shots with flash you 
need to stop the lens down - i.e. more of the exposure needs to come from the 
flash 
and less needs to come from ambient lighting. I 

3) Consider shooting black and white - its tough to get good colors under poor 
lighting, and with B&W you'll sidestep the whole light color/white balance 
issue.

4) Consider shooting "hail mary" shots from behind the goal. i.e. mount your 
widest wide angle, set it to hyperfocal, and hold it over the glass behind the 
goal. A 
monopod may also be useful for this.

5) Consider using a remote fire attachment and mount your camera on top of the 
glass at a strategic location and then shoot when the action is in the field of 
the lens. I see this a lot at baseball games where one shooter will mount 
cameras on the rail at 1st and 3rd base and then fire them remotely from 
wherever he's 
watching the game.                                    


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Barry B. Bean
Bean & Bean Cotton Company
Peach Orchard, MO
www.beancotton.com
www.beanformissouri.org



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