PlayOn! is a street hockey tournament sponsored by Hockey Night In Canada. The final is tomorrow at six, but I snapped some of the prelim round games down by parliament today.

Sports photography relies on zoom, flash, and fast shutter speeds to get close to the action and freeze it. That’s what I was experimenting with here, but then I mixed in some longer exposures to capture the motion of the game.

The sky was overcast, which helped the lighting by softening the daylight until it was essentially ambient. The flash then helped fill shadows to highlight the subject.

The last shot in the series was the game-winning shootout goal.