Hockey with the House Mites

This past weekend, Sheila and I finally managed to get to one of Lukey's hockey sessions. We had a really nice time!

This was my first attempt at shooting photos of ice hockey and I'd been looking forward to this opportunity in shooting photos of Lukey for a long time. (I also look forward to shooting photos of Kenzie at gymnastics... hopefully soon!) As far as photography goes, fortunately for me, the young 'House Mites' aren't really lightning fast so keeping up with them was fairly easy... they don't move fast enough to introduce motion blurring issues... and I recently picked up a Sony camera which is geared toward fast action. This all worked in my favor so I managed to capture some nice photos.

Naturally, with a new camera there was a bit of a learning curve. I spent the past month working on setting up the camera to ideal settings for sports... then would get frustrated because I had no fast moving objects available to practice shooting... so I would go back to doing more research... then, before we headed out to the ice rink the other day, I set up a custom preset profile specifically for this outing. I made a few mistakes but I had no major difficulties and shot about 800 photos. I learned a few things while shooting and hopefully I won't make the same mistakes again. I chose a few to share here that showed some action as well as Lukey's face.

Lukey's skating is coming along and even though he was the youngest out there on the ice, he looked good! We're heading to the lake house again soon so maybe we'll see if the kids want to do a little skating on the lake... and, we need to squeeze in a gymnastics session with Kenzie...

Itching to get out on the ice and trying to ignore the old guy on the end of the bench with the camera...