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[GoMets8]

this is right after my city's team won and i wanted to capture this moment

but it definitely did not come out how i wanted

if i had the chance to shoot it again, id move the shot up a little, so they wouldnt be so centered but more towards the bottom of the picture.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gomets8/2407044372/" title="Soundtigers WIN! by GoMets8, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2256/2407044372_e805c29862.jpg" width="375" height="500" alt="Soundtigers WIN!" /></a>

i also didnt like how it came out kind of dark

what did i do wrong? ISO? exposure? was it because the flash didnt fire?

Camera: Olympus E-410
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/160)
Aperture: f/5.6
Focal Length: 42 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0/10 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

[MikeM]

What mode were you shooting in? Auto, Av, Tv, Manual? Perhaps you metered off something very bright so it left everything else underexposed. It looks like you could have easily slowed the shutter speed or upped the ISO to get a better exposure.

For these tricky, high contrast light situations you made want to use the spot metering function so you don't have the ice or lights tricking your camera.

[KathrynWilson]

Agreed with the above - watch what your in-camera meter is picking up. A suggested crop?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3149/2422089198_ccf8cd8dfb_o.jpg

[Ikke_006]

Agreed with the above - watch what your in-camera meter is picking up. [/IMG]

How can you see what your camera meter is picking up

[GoMets8]

Agreed with the above - watch what your in-camera meter is picking up. A suggested crop?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3149/2422089198_ccf8cd8dfb_o.jpg

oh yeah definitely much better....i just just left it without any changes so everyone can see what the picture was like straight out the camera

and like the person above pointed out....how do i see what the in-camera meter is picking up?

[KathrynWilson]

Sorry, I should have been more clear. You can't 'see' what areas the meter is picking up, but you need to think about the tonal range of where you're pointing the camera and take into account how that will affect the meter. For example if you were down on the ice, and wanted to shoot one person standing on the other side, your meter would pick up all the white around you. So if you stood where you were and metered correctly, the whites of the ice would be correctly exposed but the person you wanted to shoot on the other side would be drastically underexposed. So in the case of your shot, you might have wanted to intentionally 'overexpose' (according to the meter) a bit. You would probably have blown some of the ice, but the details/people would been more correctly exposed.

[netbymatt]

Did your other shots come out this way? If they did then I think you're suffering from the same effect that you get when taking pictures of snow. The camera sees all this bright stuff in front of it and adjusts the exposure down to the standard 18% gray.

It's also possible that your camera just happened to meter while someone else's flash is firing, making the scene look much brighter than it actually was. I've noticed a few of my shots doing that.

One final thing. From this distance, you don't want to use a flash, it'll never reach that far. All you'd get is the back of the person's head in front of you. (which for me is always someone with "poofy" hair that takes up half the frame).

[HockeyFan]

At my games, I run it up to ISO 1600, shoot at 1/160th with the lense wide open.

[redthedunns]

The edited photo really adds a level of excitement to the photo. The original picture was dark and didn't seem to show much emotion at all. The edit lightened the mood as well as the photo. :) I like the crop as well-brings more focus on the players.

Nice job!