Photos from Sacred Heart Game

[CowbellGuy]

Photos from the Sacred Heart game which featured the special jerseys are up.

http://www.elynah.com/?photob&id=159

[KeithK]

Didn't occur to me that SH wore red & white unis.  Must've been a really wierd game to watch, rooting for the team wearing dark color, strange looking jerseys and rooting against the squad wearing white with red trim...

[CowbellGuy]

I just noticed the bottom of the window in IE Win is drawing in the wrong place without a reload on the thumbnails page. No need to tell me. I can fix it tomorrow (even though every other browsers handles it fine...)

[JDeafv]

Age - Photos look even better than last year.  Maybe it was just the new jerseys added excitement to viewing the pictures, but I think they look even better, well done.

[CowbellGuy]

Or maybe it's the new camera :-D

Now when I actually have my good lenses...

[billhoward]

What's wrong with your camera? You know about color correction? The red tones are all over the place. On my paintstakingly color corrected monitor, it appears that the Cornell pants are, like, eight shades more faded and less red than the Cornell jerseys. And it's that way on every picture. It's almost as if the guy wearing the "Lodboa" jersey had to wear the very same pants Lodboa wore in 1970. Sheesh, this is not good advertising for Cornell hockey.

But it's only the color correction that's off for the Cornell unis. Sacred Heart's red is nice and bright red. All their jerseys look spiffy and new and so do the pants. *They* look like a successful hockey team.

[billhoward]

For still photgraphers, it's a bear without jersey numbers on the front and/or also on the sides of helmets. Back and sleeves aren't enough. It's possible if the player is facing the camera and his jersey sleeve is obscured by a a tangle of bodies that you won't know who it is.

Maybe we can embed an RFID chip in each player and put a sensor in the camera. Yeah, that'd do it.

[CowbellGuy]

Their regular jerseys match the hockey pants a lot better. Those special jerseys were quite a bit darker. Speaking of color correction, this is what the photos looked like out of the camera
:-P

Love that Lynah lighting...

[bigggreddd77]

Whoa...someone needs to relax a little.  Those pictures are awesome...and as Age was saying about the colors...no doubt in my mind that those 'third' jerseys were done in a darker than normal color to match the traditional Cornell Red...this traditional red is what is now being used in the new Cornell logo/identity...from the identity styleguide:  

The program is based on an emblem that was developed
early in the twentieth century, with elements that
evoke our founding principles and our status as New
York’s land grant university. It uses the traditional
university color, a deep red that was first used at Cornell
inauguration ceremonies in 1868, and the classic typeface
that has been our standard for many years.

They obviously didn't get new pants for one game so there is a mismatch...

[KeithK]

[q]Their regular jerseys match the hockey pants a lot better.[/q]And the pants never matched the red jerseys exactly.  Or at least according to a couple of my female hockey friends, who said that was why they hated the road uniforms.

[billhoward]

Um, that was intended to be tongue in cheek about the pants not matching the jerseys. I suspect the regular red jerseys don't match the pants. I think the pants must be used for about five years or so and somewhere along the line they lose a little of their red luster. I think we had a thread last year about how threadbare they looked.

The overall color correction of the uploaded photos is pretty darn good. Sodium vapor or whatever the lighting is is not exactly full-spectrum daylight.

[puff]

Very nice photos. i really liked the one with the sieve looking over his shoulder watching the net catch what he couldn't.

[CowbellGuy]

I didn't bother to do any manual white balance since it's trivial to fix afterwards when shooting RAW. I'm not even sure what the white balance was set on. My only complaint about the Lynah lights is the cycling color cast. If you stare at one spot on the ice you'll see it repeatedly shift from blue to red. I suppose if all the lights did this uniformly, then you'd end up with a consistent cast, which is also fairly easy to remedy. The probablem is adjoining lights always seem to be completely out of phase with each other, so if you look at that unadjusted pic above, you'll see the area around the goal is bluish-green and the far boards are orange-red. A couple seconds later and it would be inverted. That's a much bigger hassle to correct. The camera also seems to pick it up a lot more than the naked eye.

[CowbellGuy]

Heh. I actually had another shot that was almost exactly the same which I didn't bother to include. Not often a goal shot is boring or repetitive, but it's better than the alternative.

[Greg Berge]

The pictures are awesome, as usual.  Nice job, Age.