try indoor lacrosse - same dingy arena, only no more ice to help "reflect" the light. Yikes. Even my F2.8 shots at 1/250th and iso 1600 were underexposed. Made the switch to the FA50mm for second period and got some better stuff. Here's an example. Might give it another go Sunday.

[JCSullivan]

Hi Rob,

Since there's no EXIF - are you saying this was taken with the FA50.

[Lowell Goudge]

Rob

Shot actually looks pretty good, but one comment, it looks like the noise reduction / smoothing was over aggressive.

If you look at the legs of the player with the back to us, the colors appear to me a little too pasty

Hi Rob,

Since there's no EXIF - are you saying this was taken with the FA50.

Indeed JC, this was with my FA 50mm F1.4; exif can be seen for each shot via my website's "photo info" icon. In this particular case, it was K10D, ISO 640, F2, 1/250th, 0 EV, AWB.

Rob

Shot actually looks pretty good, but one comment, it looks like the noise reduction / smoothing was over aggressive.

If you look at the legs of the player with the back to us, the colors appear to me a little too pasty

Thanks, yeah it was something I had considered not implementing - Bibble's basic noise reduction - but knowing that I wanted to PSE sharpen them as a final step, I indeed did use the NR; more for the ISO 1000 shots, but to save time, I did them as a batch.

[Peter Zack]

Looks pretty good to me. No doubbt a very tough sport to shoot. I think you did very well and wth them coming straight toward you it makes focusing even tougher. Was that shot through the glass?

Looks pretty good to me. No doubbt a very tough sport to shoot. I think you did very well and wth them coming straight toward you it makes focusing even tougher. Was that shot through the glass?

Oh yeah, I guess I should have mentioned that too. Indeed, I was behind the net and therefore behind the plexiglass which is suffering from lack-of-cleaning-for-the-past-year syndrome; common to most of our city owned and run rinks it would seem, lol.

Thanks for taking the time to look/comment.

Rob

[spyglass]

Love the shot,
Both my boys play Box & Field lacrosse. I have coached for several years now and never seem to get a chance lately to photograph the games. The lighting is a challenge. This year we are hosting the BC Provincials for PeeWee (11 & 12 year olds) July 23- 27. It should be great fun and tough competition. (5 games in 2 1/2 days is a physical and mental challenge).