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Blown out ice....the correct hockey exposure
Mike Burley, Student/Intern
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Ventura | CA | USA | Posted: 2:15 PM on 04.10.04 |
->> I am new to shooting hockey, with strobes anyways, and want to know if it is normal to lose the detail in the ice. I am bouncing two dyna lights off a reflective cieling at one end of the ice, over the goal.
Attatched is a link to a picture where I believe it to be correctly lit. The face has detail, and the ice is blown out. I know I'd rather have the face over ice, but is there a way to have both? Too anal?
http://www.sportsshooter.com/hunkabeef/ice/
I know I should just look at other hockey pics, but I wanted opinions.... |
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Robert Oliver, Photographer
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San Diego (Oceanside) | CA | USA | Posted: 2:35 PM on 04.10.04 |
| ->> exposure looks perfect. try calibrating your monitor. the picture looks good on my monitor calibrated with the colorvision spyder. plenty of detail in the ice. |
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Caleb Simpson, Photographer, Assistant
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Denton / Dallas | Texas | USA | Posted: 2:44 PM on 04.10.04 |
| ->> looks good on my end too. |
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Mark Loundy, Photo Editor
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 3:04 PM on 04.10.04 |
->> Looks good here. I agree with Robert's suggestion that your monitor is out of calibration.
--Mark |
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Mike Burley, Student/Intern
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Ventura | CA | USA | Posted: 3:11 PM on 04.10.04 |
| ->> Can you calibrate a LCD or do I have to get a CRT? I often have color issues when I send stuff to print.... CAn I calibrate my laptop? |
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Robert Longhitano, Photographer
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North Wales | PA | USA | Posted: 3:27 PM on 04.10.04 |
->> Mike,
Looks good to me as well. I see now blown highlights in that shot.
You can't really "calibrate a LCD display BUT you can "profile" one. I use Eye One Display to profile my Powerbook and two Samsung LCD displays I use with my desktop G4.
http://www.i1color.com/products/i1_display.asp
good luck,
rob |
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Bill McCracken, Photographer
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Olathe | KS | USA | Posted: 8:03 PM on 04.10.04 |
| ->> Details look great. I can see the small bits of ice below his glove too - no wash out. Great shot. |
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Andrew Sullivan, Photographer
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Kissimmee | FL | USA | Posted: 8:36 PM on 04.10.04 |
| ->> The ice in that pic looks great. The only thing I would change would be to adjust for a faster shutter speed, depending on how high you can sync with the strobes, to really get some of the movement blur out of the shot. Of course, that could be intentional on your part too... |
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Stanley Leary, Photographer
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Roswell | GA | USA | Posted: 8:43 PM on 04.10.04 |
| ->> Looks perfect for me. |
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Rick Burnham, Photographer
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Enfield | CT | USA | Posted: 9:17 PM on 04.10.04 |
| ->> Mike it looks fine, as Andrew suggested bump up the shutter. I shoot almost all of my strobed hockey at 1/500 @f5.6 @200 ISO. |
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jeff martin, Photographer, Student/Intern
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wellington | OH | usa | Posted: 12:54 AM on 04.11.04 |
->> Mike, I must need to adjust my display also. The ice looks very slightly blown. Great shot though.
jeff |
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Kevin Saitta, Photographer
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Groveland | CA | USA | Posted: 12:57 AM on 04.11.04 |
| ->> Exposure look good here as well. NO blow out at all with the ice. |
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Mike Burley, Student/Intern
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Ventura | CA | USA | Posted: 4:17 AM on 04.11.04 |
| ->> Just wondering if it matters if you have detail in the ice...Editors, what do you think? Whats the standard? |
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Stanley Leary, Photographer
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Roswell | GA | USA | Posted: 9:23 AM on 04.11.04 |
| ->> What matters is well exposed, which usually gives you detail in highlights. If you have no highlights then it will look like a cutout on the page rather than a regular action photo. |
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