Tips please on shooting Ice Hockey

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Going to a ice hockey game tonight at Murrayfield, 1st time I will have tried the camera at a hockey game, Intending to use to use my 100-400L on canon 40D. Anytips on best setting to use? lots of flourescent lighting at the rink so I will be shooting raw so I can sort the WB later. Will most likely all shots will be handheld.
Just wondering should I keep IS on or off, or on mode 2, what should be the maximum iso i should bump up to. Any tips will be appreciated.

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the lighting will be poor.. so you will need to set as high an iso as possible and open your lens as wide as possible then cross your fingers and hope you get a shutter speed good enought o capture the action.

we would normaly say NO to using IS as its a fast moving sport and IS can slow your auto focus down.. but give it a try if you can as you will need all the help you can get in what I am guessing will be very very poor lighting..
 
frank said:
Going to a ice hockey game tonight at Murrayfield, 1st time I will have tried the camera at a hockey game, Intending to use to use my 100-400L on canon 40D. Anytips on best setting to use? lots of flourescent lighting at the rink so I will be shooting raw so I can sort the WB later. Will most likely all shots will be handheld.
Just wondering should I keep IS on or off, or on mode 2, what should be the maximum iso i should bump up to. Any tips will be appreciated.

Thanks
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IS off, shutter speed at whatever it takes to freeze the action, auto ISO, chimp, adjust, see what works.
 
Tricky with that variable aperture, somewhat "slow" lens.

Try setting it to Tv mode at 1/500th. If the 40D does max/min aperture control, set to 3.5-5.6 and hopefully it'll do auto-ISO as well. This setup will let you keep the shutter speed high at whatever zoom length you are at, and bounce the ISO up as required. Also dial in a bit of positive exposure compensation to handle the brightness of the ice which will make the camera underexpose.

Leave IS off.
 
try getting behind the net/goal area if you get. youll get to see more actions shots of players shooting and deking on the netminder, youll also get the pointshooters from the blueline. As for settings I cant really can you much advice as I am still learning but after playing ice hockey for many years you get to learn the best places.


Rob
 
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