Congratulations to the varsity field hockey team on their win over Newfield. Excellent job! Luckily for me, the game started on time at 4:00pm and the weather was clear so I was able to get the entire game in before the light got dim. Nothing tricky in setting exposure for this one but I did have to dial in +1/3 EV compensation to counteract the effects of the strong...
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The Commack Varsity Field Hockey team started off their season with a win against Smithtown West. Way to go, ladies. Nothing special about the camera settings for this game. It was sunny with a clear blue sky. I shot it using auto-iso, 1/1600 @ f/5.0. I like to shoot as wide open (lowest f/stop) as possible to blur the background but when using my 1.4x telextender on the...
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Good field hockey game. Commack pulled off a win against Centereach and the competition was fast and furious. I thought I’d try something different for this game and dragged along my D300 body with Nikon’s new 28-300mm lens. This is a full frame lens that I bought to use with my D3 body for vacations when I like to travel light. On a D300 body with an APS-C...
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Photographing field hockey is much like photographing other turf sports such as football and soccer. Same long lens, same camera settings. One challenge specific to field hockey, and to a lesser extent, soccer, is that the players usually have their heads down since they’re looking at the ball. They usually look up only after they’ve hit the ball and by that...
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