Hockey Portraits

12 years 7 months ago #126234 by Rob pix4u2





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12 years 7 months ago #126236 by Baydream
Great shots, especially the first two.

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12 years 7 months ago #126330 by Scotty
I like number 2. Number one is slightly OOF and number 3 is completely OOF.

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12 years 7 months ago #126340 by chasrich
Nice... :judge: :thumbsup:

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12 years 7 months ago #126355 by photobod
Good work :judge: :judge: :judge:

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12 years 7 months ago - 12 years 7 months ago #126422 by MLKstudios
I have to agree with Scotty here. Even the best AF systems can be wrong. They simply hunt for contrast. We look for EYES!

Fortunately, you can override the AF on many Nikon lenses. A slight twist to "fine tune" the focus after AF got you close would help.

As for the third one, I think that's more of a motion blur than a focus issue.

However, most people don't know just how hard it is to get good focus in a fast moving game. You did pretty well.

Matthew :)

PS try shooting a game using only MF and follow focus techniques (old "skills"). It will help improve your AF work too.

** Follow focus is turning the focus ring while something approaches you (or moves away) and KEEPING them in focus. It's how we shot sports in the olden days, before AF. It takes a lot of practice to do it well.

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12 years 7 months ago #126424 by robbie
Love the intensity of the eyes in 1&2.


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12 years 7 months ago #126429 by Rob pix4u2
Matthew I was a MF shooter in the olden days before i had an AF body. I used a Nikon FE with MF lenses and a motor drive(MD-12) when I first began shooting sports. I've also had 23 eye surgeries mostly on my dominant eye so I rely on my AF pretty heavily nowdays. I still shoot single shot rather than burst mode and most of the time get my shot. Alot of time the fine focus others can see escapes me due to the eyes don't have the acuity any more but that hasn't kept me from trying. so i appreciate Scotty pointing out my errors as it heelps me figure out which ones are good. Thanks guys I appreciate your help

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12 years 7 months ago - 12 years 7 months ago #126451 by MLKstudios
When I'm shooting people and doing it fast, I try to capture a "glint" in the eye and focus on it.

It's a hit and miss game though. I doubt anyone, with or without eye surgery, will grab 100% focus at a hockey game. As I said, it takes real skills. You do fine rob.

Hope I wasn't seen as being too critical. That was not my intent.

Matthew :)

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12 years 7 months ago #126504 by Rob pix4u2
Not at all too critical - I have a thick skin where my photography is concerned. If it ain't right , it ain't right no matter how much sugar you put on it

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12 years 7 months ago - 12 years 7 months ago #126505 by MLKstudios
Glad you feel that way. My comments on follow focus were more a "to whom it may concern" comment. To let others know there is a focusing skill beyond AF that sports photographers once used.

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12 years 7 months ago #126541 by Scotty
Yeah rob you do a good job man. You picked probably one of the hardest sports (lighting wise) to deal with.

When the last candle has been blown out
and the last glass of champagne has been drunk
All that you are left with are the memories and the images-David Cooke.

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12 years 7 months ago #126788 by icepics
What autofocus?? :rofl: I've shot hockey w/an all manual camera. I admit, it's getting harder to focus manually esp. since I'm not exactly getting any younger, and I do some autofocus. Actually I find a rangefinder/split image easier to use.

Nice portraits, especially that last one, that's superb. I wouldn't have known you've had eye surgery (much less that many times) from looking at your photos.

I may scan in some more of mine as I'm going thru photos anyway. Rob, did you know the Lite Brite scoreboard at the Gardens is no more?? - end of an era.

Sharon
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12 years 7 months ago #126815 by Rob pix4u2
That's sad to find that the Gardens scoreboard is no more, what did they replace it with? I haven't been there in a looong time. I need to scan some of my Ducks photos when I find them, have some of Askey and some of Kariya and Selanne from an NHL exhibition at the old barn

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12 years 7 months ago - 12 years 5 months ago #126840 by icepics
I went to that exhibition game, but don't know if I took any pictures of it or not. I have pictures of Askey and those guys, boy that was some years ago. They just took down the Lite Brite portion of it because it had a specialized computer to run it and I guess it quit working and basically isn't replaceable. So they're going to put up an actual video screen. Guess fans will like that, I kind of liked the old one.

Sharon
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