Weekly Photo Challenge: Unique

Well, sometimes things just work out.  It happens that one of my assignments last week was to take a photo from a unique angle.  This weekend unique is the theme for the WordPress photo challenge.  So here is my unique photo:

ISO 2500 50mm 0ev f/2.8 1/500

The view of a hockey player getting ready to put on their mask in the locker room.  It took some fiddling with the camera settings to get what I was after here.  I had to handhold the image, so it did have to be a fast shutter speed.  I wanted to blur everything except the cage, so low f-stop. High ISO because the locker room has pretty horrible lighting.

I have a lot of different versions of this on different settings, but this one was the best.

Cheers!

Stopping the Action

Stopping the action of a fast moving subject, like a hockey player, is what we are covering this week in my digital photography class:

ISO 3200 50mm 2ev f/1.8 1/3200

Getting a shot like this one is a fairly challenging thing.  First let me say that using flash isn’t acceptable.  It’s distracting to the players, and just bounces off the glass anyway.  So, I am using a 50mm lens here because of the two lens that I have available, it is the one that will let in the most light.  Because I am using a fast shutter speed I have set the ISO high and boosted the exposure 2 stops.

Do you have any tips for getting photos under these types of conditions?

Cheers!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Everyday Life

My photo for the Weekly Photo Challenge put out by WordPress is actually a continuation of some work I have been doing this week.  I have been working on two assignments for my digital photography class.  One is on photojournalism the other with slow shutter speed.  When I blogged about photographs without a clear shot of the subject’s face for my photojournalism assignment, one conversation that evolved was the crowd at a sporting event.  There is no crowd at this sporting event unless you count the one on the ice:

ISO 100 f/3.5 1/25 50mm

So there is my crowd, and I would like to thank Martin at Thoughts from Finchley for the inspiration, I have linked in a recent post of his that I enjoyed.

As for the shutter speed, I was playing with it while taking the photos that include the one above.  I will be blogging some other thoughts on slow shutter speed in the coming week.

Cheers!

Photojournalism Looks Away

Yet again today I am going to be posting a picture and asking you your opinion.  I did a photojournalism series for my photography class and this is a photo that did not make the cut:

ISO 1250 f/5 1/25 50mm

For this assignment I was to follow an event from beginning to end.  I chose hockey evaluations for my youngest child.  I had 600 original images. Then 400. I saved 80, from those I chose 30.  This photo is one of the 30, but I needed to have less than 20 for this assignment.  The final project has 17 images.  I wanted to include an image that gave the viewer the experience of waiting for ice time to start.  This was one that I took in that series.  Do you think it conveys what I intended? how do you feel in general about photos where you cannot see the subject’s face?

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Photography and Personal Preference

It is always interesting to me to read what people say in the comment section of my posts.  The same thing goes within my own house.  This picture has had some interesting reviews in our house:

ISO 1250 f/2 1/40 50mm

This photo is part of a photojournalism assignment I did for my digital photography class.  The assignment is a series of 17 photos following my youngest through an evening of hockey evaluations.  This photos was both a favorite and least favorite photo of the series.  Interesting.

Cheers!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Wrong

WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge decided to go “wrong” this week.

I thought the St. Louis Blues might win the Stanley Cup, but I was wrong:

 

The city got all decked out in support of the team this spring though, that was nice to see.  Here is a flag flying outside the art museum.

Also wrong, trying to take this picture in the middle of the day with my iPhone.  That breaks a few “photography rules”

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Photography and Hockey for the Masses

If you happen to be in the St. Louis area between now and May 13th, and you love photography, stop by to see the special exhibit at the Saint Louis Art Museum, “An Orchestrated Vision”.  Special exhibits are free at the museum on Fridays, so I stopped by today.  It definitely gave me something to think about.  While everything in the exhibit is contemporary, there are a lot of different styles and subjects within the exhibit.

I have to throw in this photo I took outside the museum:

Let’s Go BLUES!

Taken in about the worse conditions, mid-day, sunny, and on an iPhone, but I think the message is clear,

LET’S GO BLUES!

Cheers!