Scottwdw
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Been putting the 70-200VR f/2.8 lens to work lately by shooting my local high school's hockey team. It's a challenge with a Nikon D70 in the lighting conditions of these local rinks. Have learned a lot about post processing noisy, underexposed digital images. Not wanting to give up on action stopping shutter speeds, I used Shutter Priority mode and set to 1/400s. The Nikon 70-200VR gave me an aperture of f/2.8 for all these shots at ISO 1600.
1. Some puck separation by the home team in white.
2. Forward looking to make a play in the offensive zone.
3. Busy visiting team goalie making one of his 40 saves of the night. His team won 2-1.
4. Poke check
5. More checking
6. Swooping in towards the goal.
Lighting is far from...well, it's terrible to be honest. If I used Aperture priority mode, I would get shutter speeds in the 1/160 to 1/320 range but opted for a bit of underexposure to stop the action. Used Noise Ninja plugin for Aperture 2 to clean up the images.
1. Some puck separation by the home team in white.

2. Forward looking to make a play in the offensive zone.

3. Busy visiting team goalie making one of his 40 saves of the night. His team won 2-1.

4. Poke check

5. More checking

6. Swooping in towards the goal.

Lighting is far from...well, it's terrible to be honest. If I used Aperture priority mode, I would get shutter speeds in the 1/160 to 1/320 range but opted for a bit of underexposure to stop the action. Used Noise Ninja plugin for Aperture 2 to clean up the images.
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