Week 34This week's picture is full of cliches of Canada - Hockey, the grand hotel at Lake Louise, and of course winter. The idea is to pick a theme that instantly tells you where the shot was taken. This one kind of seems a bit like Norman Rockwell to me it is so old fashioned.
They are playing out on open ice which you really don't see much any more. I don't really know hockey, but in this format there are only 3 people per team on the ice at any one time. The goal is unguarded. The Chiefs were playing the Slapsticks and they were killing them.
The camera is a Nikon D3 in aperture priority at f/8, ISO 200, which results in a shutter speed of 1/640. I might should have set ISO to 400 to get shutter speed over 1/1000 but it is still pretty sharp. The lens is the AF-S Nikkor 24-70 1:2.8G ED. I find I use this lens more than any other. It was a cloudy day and thus not too contrasty to get both the sky, ice, and people fairly well exposed.
Post consisted of adding micro contrast with the Topaz Adjust 3 plug-in to PhotoShop, adjusting red saturation to make the jerseys pop, lighten the faces, and a gradient to the sky with soft light to give the clouds more drama. It is cropped of course in a horizontal pano format.
Idea based on It's in the Detail, pages 54-5 in the book 50 Photo Projects by Lee Frost.
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