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ice hockey shot on a track?
I have a Nikon D40 with Nikkor 70-200mm VR zoom. I'm going to my little brothers hockey game today and I would record some nice pictures. last time I tried everything that I have a big headache and the pictures were pretty dark at high shutter speeds or blurred at lower shutter speeds. Sometimes, when he tried to set the white balance setting for fluorescent or got cloudy color photos does not help either. Any advice to the shooting in an ice hockey rink indoors? Thank you.
First, by blurring topics: hand can shoot as long as the Shutter speed is the inverse of its focal length, as a rule. That is, the shooting mode to 70 mm can hand around 1/100sec (70 mm by 1.5 cropped sensor approximately) when 200 mm should be limited shutter speed below 1 / 300 sec. Those days became about 2-3 stops faster, with reduced vibration so that the use (and 1/100sec 1/30sec about 70 mm and 200 mm respectively, in the best cases). Try it at home even before the game to know the shutter speed minimum to keep images from blurring. The way to do it in the place would be to either use prioprity opening and maintaining control of shutter speed asjusting in the viewfinder and ISO accordingly, use or shutter priority and set to its minimum allowed for each focal length. Now for the measurement, from the conditions light will not change, adjust your exposure once there and locking system: measured by a compensation in the center and take the reading of the ice (the ice is white, for what the meter will underexpose) and then lock the exposure (AE Lock) and use 1 2 / 3 EV compensation. Take a test shot and check the histogram and the screen LCD, if you are satisfied to use these values during the game, otherwise cmpensation make further adjustments. For the white balance issue is best left in automatic since it is likely to be a complicated lighting conditions. You can also use the ice to set the manual white balance. Make sure you fill the frame and use the procedure in the manual for a white balance reading and use as the default. And do not forget to shoot in RAW. You have more chance of saving images evil exposed later and, of course, correct white balance.
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