Photos from Sacred Heart Game

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very nice pics indeed... the only question i have is whether or not a goal was scored in SH05_027...

[CowbellGuy]

[Q]min Wrote:
 very nice pics indeed... the only question i have is whether or not a goal was scored in SH05_027...
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Nope. But it was a great wraparound attempt.

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thanks...

[Larry72]

Really nice photos Age.  Speaking of Lynah lighting, back in the "dark ages", the 60s and early 70s, available lighting was 2.5 stops LESS than today.  We had to push the heck out of the B/W and Ektachrome films.  Much better today.

Larry '72

[CowbellGuy]

Yeah, but at least you were shooting B&W. Becuase I was using my crappy zoom, I was shooting at ISO 800 and about a full stop dark, knowing I could (for lack of a better term) push the RAW image. The best I could manage was around 1/200s. Thank goodness for Noise Ninja and RAW images.

[DL]

So.... does color correction somehow account for why McKee is wearing Lenny's name ? (SH05_052)  ::nut::

[billhoward]

The Larry 72 signature would almost certainly have to make you Larry Baum '72, ex of the Sun. You were a guy who would know about the lighting.

[Larry72]

Yep...that's me. Grew up in Ithaca and started attending Cornell hockey games around 1965 or 1966.  While at Cornell, I was a photographer for the Sun during 68-70, then for the Ithaca Journal and freelance from 70-72.  Left Ithaca for about a year to work in Syracuse then back at the Ithaca Journal till 1978 when I started Computing Center.  I still did some professional photography through 1981.  

We used to push the B/W films to ISO 1600 shooting hockey at f2.8 @250th in Lynah.  First time I went to Boston Garden, I thought I was in heaven...could shoot hockey at 500th of a second!  The 1970 NCAA championship game was in the Old 1932 Rink in Lake Placid.  That's about the lighting of the "old" Lynah lights.  Not very good.  Unfortunately, I never tracked down my negatives from that game. Those negatives and a whole lot of others were stored at The Ithaca Journal and were "cleaned" out sometime in the mid-1980s.

Larry

[JordanCS]

Larry...Wow...at ISO 1600 you must have had an incredible amount of film grain.  That's such an advantage in today's digital SLRs...you can push the ISO to 800 or 1600 and still have very usable images with a minimum of noise.  

Age...what camera are you using, and with what lens?  Do you use a monopod, or just hand hold?  

[marty]

Yes Age, I was also wondering about the new camera.

And did the silent auction take place for the jerseys?  If so what was the spread on the bidding?

[Will]

[Q]marty Wrote:

And did the silent auction take place for the jerseys?  If so what was the spread on the bidding?[/q]

The silent auction takes place this Friday at the Harvard game.  The minimum bid on each jersey is $150, apparently (which bums me out since that's totally out of my price range).

[puff]

Here's the details:
http://cornellbigred.collegesports.com/sports/m-hockey/spec-rel/110204aaa.html

[CowbellGuy]

Jordan, B&W film holds up much better at high ISO, so even shooting at 1600 will give you pretty decent results. Also, I'm not sure where you're seeing this "minimum of noise" at 1600 (or even 800) on digital cameras, but by all means get me one of those cameras. :-)

I'm shooting at 800 and it's quite noisy. Fortunately for web use, I can recover by downsizing and liberal use of Noise Ninja. Certainly irriating after shooting racing all summer...

Anyway, I'm usually using a Nikon D2H body and given my proximity this year, starting with Harvard I'll be using a Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8 VR AF-S. In the past I've used a Nikkor 80-400 f/4-5.6 VR AF, which isn't ideal for sports, but I've needed the extra zoom at times. I'm going to get the new TC-17E II teleconverter from Nikon, which I'll use with the 70-200 when I need a longer lens rather than revert to the 80-400. I use a Nikkor 17-35 f/2.8 AF-S for the wide shots.

The D2X looks very promising, though the pseudo-sports finder to get 8fps thing seems odd. Ideally, I'd replace my D100 with a D2X when it becomes available, but unless I sell a whole lot of those prints, it seems unlikely. :-D

[DeltaOne81]

[Q]CowbellGuy Wrote:

 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.[/q]
Gotta respectfully disagree. Those "moment" shots are the best. All the photos are beautiful and its great to relive the game, but guys pushing or just skating are things you can appreciate at the time.

There's something that much more special about capturing a 'moment' that you're not able to appreciate in real time. In that goal shot where you look at the picture and almost feel Lynah ready to break into all out joy, its the moment that you can't appreciate when you're there cause its a fraction of a second, but with the picture you can sit there and really appreciate the event.

Doesn't have to be a goal either, the wraparound attempt is another great one, it can be a spray of ice form a skate (you had one of those), or anything that. Capturing a moment that illustrates the beauty of hockey, of which you only usually get fleeting glances.

Or maybe that's just me ;-)

[CowbellGuy]

Well, you asked for it. It's the first one on this page:

http://www.elynah.com/?photob&id=159&e=&p=3