Range Hockey!

[Dbl]

Shot a few hockey games in GR over the weekend. Lighting was good but the lights really cycled! You can see that in a few of the shots. These were all shot with the 50D and 70-200/2.8. Most were at ISO 1250 to 1600 and 1/800s to 1/1000s.

The 50D did OK with hockey, didn't have all that many throw aways due to focus.

#1. Slap shot resulting in a goal.

#2. Beat the defense!

3. Concentration.

#4. Slap shot just off the stick for another goal.

#5. Control the puck!

#6. Reflections

#7. Heads up

[Steve Foss]

Good ones Dan. Love the images with direct eye contact!

[MARINERMAGNUM]

Nice job Dan.

Do you have to shoot thru the glass or do you have a pair of skates?

[Steve Foss]

Often you can sit in the penalty box and shoot at eye level with no Plexi in the way. Of course, you WILL get a 2-minute minor for slow glass if you're not shooting at f2.8.

[fishing tech]

Nice job, my oldest son plays in a tourney in Eveleth this coming weekend. I love the history of the range rinks.

[Dbl]

Steve is right, I've spent a few games in the penalty box...shooting! I usually shoot from the end of the players bench or the corners through the glass. These were all shot through the corner glass, it was not in bad shape. The type of glass makes a difference as well, plexi doesn't seem to be good for shooting or scratches. Shooting through glass will usually cost about a stop.

[MARINERMAGNUM]

Dan,do you use center af point on a shoot like this?

[Dbl]

Dan,do you use center af point on a shoot like this?

ALWAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Especially hockey, I usually try and shoot isolated as these shots show. But if you start shooting in crowds if you are not dead on your subject you will have missed focus. These uniforms are killer as well with all black. The focus can pick the letters in the jersey but many angles you don't have them in view.

[Steve Foss]

I always used center point (for all action-sports work, not just hockey), and when I wasn't in the penalty box was standing on an upside-down garbage can shooting over the short glass along the side. Another great reason for center point is that on the XXD series when using an f2.8 lens, center point selection offers more precise focus capability.

[finnbay]

Oh does that bring back memories! I played in the old half of the Arena, but my son got to play some tournaments and a CCM Allstar Game in the new half. Great shots!

[Dbl]

These were all old half Ken! It is named after my wife's old next door neighbor and one of the nicest guys I ever met, Bill McDonald. I shot old half last year, I am pretty sure they upgraded the lights since then, don't remember getting that good of settings.

[Steve Foss]

He's not related to the basketball McDonald coaches in Ely, is he?

[Dbl]

You mean the Chisholm McDonald's Steve? I know a few of his son's and I think daughter coach around the state. No relation to the hockey McDonalds in Rapids.

[MN Shutterbug]

It's kinda funny. After seeing these images, I went to the local newspaper gallery and looked at their hockey photos. Out of 26 shots, there were only 4 that even had the puck included. To me, it would be similar to shooting a basketball game and leaving the basketball out of the photos.

[Dbl]

X, I kind of have a few rules that I try not to break shooting hockey. Face hopefully with the eyes showing through those helmets, puck, and no backs of jerseys! Actually those same rules can be applied to any sports shot. It is hard to find compelling shots that don't have those basic elements. JMHO!

[MN Shutterbug]

Makes sense to me.

[Steve Foss]

Dan, there are two McDonalds (brothers) who coach bb in Ely, one high school, one jr college. I think they are the sons of the Chisholm McDonald, but finnbay knows them, so he'll know for sure.

[finnbay]

Different family altogether. Bill McDonald has been a hockey icon in the Rapids forever (Cass McDonald was a year behind me and that was a long time ago).

[T.S128]

nice shots. these pee wees?

[Dbl]

Squirts T.S128