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Shooting NHL hockey

Brian — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:54:30 +0000

Last week I was in Vancouver to cover the first potential meeting between two danish hockey players in the NHL. Unfortunately one of the guys suffered a pulled groin just days before I left so the odds was against me but I took the trip anyway. The guy didn’t get ready so I only got pictures of one of the guys.

Anyway as I’ve been raving about before the light here in Denmark is horrible so it’s always a nice change to go to an arena where the lights are actually a priority.

Plus when you’re shooting at ice level they have cut out holes to shoot through.

It leave you with clear photos and no blur caused by the glass or anything.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM @ 300mm, f/2,8 1/800sec, ISO800. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

I also got to shoot my first fight… I was actually lucky enough to get a fight each of the two games I covered. I was hoping for it when I was in Manitoba last year where I got none, so this was a nice change of events.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM @ 300mm, f/2,8 1/800sec, ISO800. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

Hockey season around the corner

Brian — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:58:25 +0000

Yes indeed. It’s that time of year again. The time where I start flooding the blog with hockey photos for your pleasure. The Mighty Bulls have started their preseason games getting ready for game one of the 2008-2009 season, starting Friday September 12th.

Friday they hosted Troja/Ljungby, a team from the Swedish Allsvenskan division. A pretty intense game ending 2-1.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM @ 300mm, f/2,8 1/400sec, ISO1600. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

This past month I spent three of the four week on vacation, recharging the batteries for the next couple of months which are usually the hardest during the week. The vacation was much needed!

Broken arm?

Brian — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:13:05 +0000

With all the sports I shoot it sometimes impress me that I don’t see more injuries than I do. It’s your typical sprained knee or whatever. I covered a soccer game last night and I was following two players battling for the ball at full speed. The both fell and the ball was put in the net on the rebound of sorts. The players cheered and the opposing player was still on the gras. My first thought was that he was just pissed off that he didn’t prevent the goal. I realized he was favoring his arm and looked to be in quite a lot of pain. The trainer rushed to the field and I heard the injured player say the other guy landed on him.

I checked the entire sequence on the LCD and found that I had indeed caught where his arm is bending kind of awkward when they fell to the grass.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM + 1,4x TC @ 420mm, f/4,5 1/1250sec, ISO200. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

A shot of the player with the trainer behind the net shows the trainer supporting the arm while the player shows just how much pain he’s in.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM + 1,4x TC @ 420mm, f/4,5 1/1250sec, ISO200. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)

The player was taken away in an ambulance.

Girls night out

Brian — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:07:31 +0000

The local movie theater/concert hall/culture house Viften arranged a girls night out arrangement where they showed Sex and the City the Movie. Before the movie the girls was served Cosmopolitan drinks which would be my approach.

Walking in to the concourse area I saw a table lined up with more than 100 glasses. The bar staff was loading Cosmopolitans into the glasses. I was hoping they would fill all glasses before letting people grab the drinks. The colorful glasses would make a great photo.. Unfortunately things didn’t quite go my way.

When the first batch of glasses was filled they asked for the women to grab a drink.. To give you an idea of the table I shot this really quick..

All the empty glasses sucked and didn’t really look good at all.

So I bent down closer to the table so the glasses that was filled close to me covered the empty glasses in the middle of the bunch.

It didn’t really do what I wanted. A smaller table behind the big one was also loaded with drinks. It would also give a wider shot including more people in the frame and still show a lot of drinks.

After the first round of drinks had been taken from the table, the rest of the empty glasses was filled and was just waiting to be consumed.

To give you an idea of what I was looking for in the first place, here’ a photo of glasses.

Most of the girls had already taken their seats in the theater waiting for a male stripper to get them going… These glasses was never touched. I waited patiently for a couple of girls or three to come and take a glass…

New stuff

Brian — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:33:45 +0000

Here’s a handful of photos taken from various assignments as of late.

A small store specializing in car racing books and miniature car models had a small Ferrari gathering at their store. (Photo: Brian Poulsen)
Canon EOS-1D Mark II n, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM @ 17mm, f/9 1/200sec, ISO160.

blog.brianpoulsen.net

Shooting NHL hockey

Hockey season around the corner

Broken arm?

Girls night out

New stuff

Avarta advances

We make a difference

Covering the Cup Final

An update

Lost and found