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There is a lot of white there (ice, walls) - maybe try to spot meter on one of the players or non-white areas to prevent the camera from averaging the tones?
From what I see my guess and it's a guess only that when indoors you need to try and shoot a RAW image and adjust the white balance in your Canon software. I'm not even sure that is the problem. What ISO did you use? I'm not sure how high you can go with the XSi and still have image quality. The image posted seems to be underexposed on my monitor. Like Triumph says next time try use your spot meter ability and put it on the yellow jersey.
There is a lot of white there (ice, walls) - maybe try to spot meter on one of the players or non-white areas to prevent the camera from averaging the tones?
My manual suggests "evaluative metering" so I hardly adjust it. Educate me on metering.
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What ISO did you use? I'm not sure how high you can go with the XSi and still have image quality. The image posted seems to be underexposed on my monitor.
I had the ISO on auto... it gave me 800, the highest is 1600.
Did you fire a flash at all? How far away were you from the players? You distance also important.
Your image lacks correct white balance, also, it doesn't have enough light, lowering shutter would help a lot, try using flash and exposure compensation.
EV, i don't know how it is on Canon, Nikon has + and - options. To bump up exposure you will use +, my D80 goes up to +5
Were you trying to capture players movements, fast actions?
Did you fire a flash at all? How far away were you from the players? You distance also important.
Your image lacks correct white balance, also, it doesn't have enough light, lowering shutter would help a lot, try using flash and exposure compensation.
EV, i don't know how it is on Canon, Nikon has + and - options. To bump up exposure you will use +, my D80 goes up to +5
Were you trying to capture players movements, fast actions?
Of course I was focusing on the players. On the off chance that the lighting wasn't good enough, I set the exposure to +2 (which is the highest), WB was on "auto", lowering the shutter gave me blurry shots, as did using the flash because (I assume) it made the ice too bright. I was about 60 feet from the shot used in my example, upon cropping a picture set at the highest resolution on my camera, it is the example shown....
While using Tv, changing the shutter speed faster made picture "crisp" but extremely dark, slowing the speed made for less detail.
Read up on the custom Functions of your camera aka CF. There should be a place to extend ISO, I'm not 100% but I'm pretty sure that the 40D can go up to ISO 3200. That along with shooting RAW, as others have suggested, and processing in the canon software that came with the camera will get you better results. Good job in selecting one of the toughest sports to shoot!!
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