Hockey (week 03/08)
Jan 22nd, 2008 by Juha Ylitalo
Last week, I got sponsored tickets to Jokerit-Kärpät ice hockey match (check Wikipedia articles about teams). I decided to try my luck on what kind of images I would be able to get from match. Since I was such experimenting and I wasn’t credited to take photographs for press, I mainly shot images about situations, when judges dropped the buck into ice. On some cases, I took photographs about judge and closest players, while on other times, I decided to take photographs about players standing further away. I finally picked this photograph, because its sort of fascinating how many ads they’ve managed to place on players clothing.
During this week, I am planning to take photograph with slave flash. We’ll see if I can come up with anything that is worthy to be photo of a week.
Jokerit-Kärpät 5-3
More information from Wikipedia:
Jokerit-Kärpät photo album
Jokerit hockey team
Kärpät hockey team
4 Responses to “Hockey (week 03/08)”
The adverts make the uniforms rather busy looking. I always have a hard time taking action shots. Do you have any secrets?
Wow that is a great photo. I too am amazed at all of the ads they put on the uniforms these days. Similar to a lot of blogs we see these days I guess. LOL.
My first hockey game was a blast too, I never realized what fun it is to watch a game waiting for a fight to break out.
I don’t have any secrets for taking action shots. From what I’ve read, if we can ignore things on wheels (cars, bicycles, trains, …), its mostly about recognizing when all movement is minimal and trying to get shortest possible shutter speed. Sometimes the pursuit of short shutter speed forces you to go into high ISO settings, but I guess slightly grainy image is better than one with too much motion blur. If your shooting for local newspaper (never had that priviledge, but …), you will benefit from the fact that newspapers printing quality is what it is …
To get shortest possible shutter speed forces many (d)SLR camera owners to use lenses with fixed focal length (in Canon’s case these would be 85/1.8, 135/2, 300/2.8, …).
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