NHL Hockey: St. Louis Blues at San Jose Sharks

I’m starting to have a lot of fun with this whole hockey thing. Last week, I shot the St. Louis Blues vs. San Jose Sharks at HP Pavilion in San Jose, CA. I shot at the Sharks Head ice-level photographer hole locations for the first and third periods and up top for the second. Fortunately, great things happened on my end during the third period as the Sharks tied the game up 1-1 to send it to overtime (the Blues were shooting on my end the first and third). I got very lucky with this particular image — the NHL/Sharks photographer was sitting next to me and shooting with the arena’s strobes — I some how managed to catch some of his light in this frame. Enough to pop the color and create a bit of a shadow, subtle but it definitely helps this frame. Usually when this happens, all or part of the image is completely washed out — less than 5% of the time it actually helps. This was one of those lucky times. The Sharks went on to win 2-1 in overtime on a Dany Heatley breakaway goal — to the other end of the ice.

More images from the game…

20100106 – St. Louis Blues at San Jose Sharks (NHL Hockey) – Images by Jason Watson