Let There Be Light

Early morning game today, first of the playoffs.  At an out of town rink that I detest because it’s a) freaking freezing, and b) has craptastic light (slow and dim).  I was glad to see the latter of those issues has been resolved as of late.  Brand new, stable lighting that’s a good 2/3rds of a stop brighter than most of the other arenas I shoot.  What I’ve always liked about this one, however, is the architecture.  The ceiling is amazing.  And now with that new blazing path of lights even better.  I struggled between this wide crop and the original which reinforced that perspective of lighting with the reflection off the ice.  Ended up going wide as just too much empty space otherwise.

Bracketed exposure set merged to a 32-bit HDR TIFF in Photoshop and then processed back in Lightroom with some final seasoning back in Photoshop  (my vastly preferred HDR workflow compared to dedicated software like Photomatix or HDR Efex Pro).

All lighting aside, it didn’t help my fingers.  Which I couldn’t feel by the end of the game.