I haven't shot hockey, but I've shot a lot of basketball in poorly lit gyms and
baseball under fading daylight or inadequate lights. Here's a few tips.
1) Work with the coaches and refs to see if you can shoot from the bench or the
unused half of the ice - get our from behind that plexiglass!
2) Don't worry about the 1/60 - if you're getting blurred shots with flash you
need to stop the lens down - i.e. more of the exposure needs to come from the
flash
and less needs to come from ambient lighting. I
3) Consider shooting black and white - its tough to get good colors under poor
lighting, and with B&W you'll sidestep the whole light color/white balance
issue.
4) Consider shooting "hail mary" shots from behind the goal. i.e. mount your
widest wide angle, set it to hyperfocal, and hold it over the glass behind the
goal. A
monopod may also be useful for this.
5) Consider using a remote fire attachment and mount your camera on top of the
glass at a strategic location and then shoot when the action is in the field of
the lens. I see this a lot at baseball games where one shooter will mount
cameras on the rail at 1st and 3rd base and then fire them remotely from
wherever he's
watching the game.
--
Barry B. Bean
Bean & Bean Cotton Company
Peach Orchard, MO
www.beancotton.com
www.beanformissouri.org
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