A New Season

Now that the local hockey season is over, I will start to gear up for Lacrosse Season!  My traditional Lacrosse subject is Le Moyne College and they will be in the area a few times this year.

Lacrosse is very closely related to hockey, but usually higher scoring games.  Plus it's outside, so that gives me more options.

I shot my first Lacrosse game with a Nikon D90 and a 55-300MM kit lens.  I was 100% in Auto mode and shot in JPG format.  Yuck!

The second game was shot with my Canon 60D and a 300mm f/4L lens I got from LensRentals.com.  I had such a great experience with LensRentals that I have used them a couple other times.  Where else can you rent a $6000 piece of glass for 3 days for a couple hundred bucks?  This time I shot almost exclusively in Aperture Priority mode and RAW.  The photos from this game were much better.

I am excited to shoot Lacrosse with my Canon 7D Mark II.  I am planning on renting the 400mm F/4L from LensRentals for the next game.  I am a little scared about how many photos I'm going to take at 10 frames per second.  I am also looking forward to checking out the local high school scene, but that will have to wait until April when the College season is almost over.