Champions on Ice, Anaheim, August 13, 2006

At Arrowhead Pond, CA, home of the Anaheim Ducks.
My photos generally turned out very dark and noisy. 1) because my lens' lowest aperture is 3.5, 2) I pushed my camera up to ISO1600 and 3) lowlight photography tends to be noisy. Even after using noise reduction on many of the photos, you can see the noise. I basically post-processed the pics to the max - in some cases, almost too much. For my first real try at show lighting with good seats, I'm pretty happy with my pictures. I've learned next time to try and shoot at 1/200 and lower and see if ISO800 will suffice.