Re: Pond Hockey
- From: David Young <telyt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:28:04 -0800
Mark Bohrer wrote:
Thanks for a reminder of my young days as a defenseman. It's
gratifying to still see wooden sticks, but Northland no longer makes
the curved-blade Custom Pros I used to use.
My favorite image is PH-3 for its subject placement, expression and
focus on the puck. I also like the girl's face and the way the
sticks frame her in PH-4. Both are very nice.
Thanks.
The puck is almost out of the frame in PH-1, and it's far enough
away from the chasing forward that I don't feel a good connection or
tension between the two.
In PH-2, my eye sees too many heads and hands beneath a puck that's
a bit high in the sky. (I know timing for sports shots is difficult
from photographing bike races.)
PH-5 is what I've come to call a 'butt' shot - the subject is
leaving action that's already happened. I don't feel any tension
here either, and feel like I've missed the action implied by the
unsharp puck and red goal marker.
Perhaps you prefer http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/PH-8.htm ?
If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known it was a four-on-four
game with no goalie. A wider establishing shot at a face-off near a
goal would introduce the story better.
I agree, a face-off shot would be nice... if the game had
face-offs! With pond hockey, you work with what they do.
When I shot my first mountain bike race with a motorized Canon F1n
and manual-focus FD lenses many years ago, I prefocused on a
difficult point in the course where racers would jump, maneuver or crash.
Much easier to do, with bike races... for you know the route and know
where they will be. With hockey, you never know where the puck will
go. You might prefocus on a spot and watch an entire game with not
one shot. Thus, I tried to "follow focus" and fire when things
looked 'good'. Because the puck moves so fast, and human reaction
times are what they are, you end up with shots like PH-1.
Even with prefocusing, I still missed a lot of shots. So I applaud
your good results with manual focusing and a quick game!
Thanks. About 35 of the better shots were shown at the tournament
dinner on Saturday night. All were very well received (many calls of
"Awesome!", etc.) by the players. That, for me, is what counted.
Thanks for taking the time to look.
Cheers!
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David Young,
Logan Lake, CANADA
Wildlife Photographs: http://www.telyt.com/
Personal Web-pages: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt
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