On Assignment: Nine Eyes on the Prize

How does Bruce Bennett photograph a disc moving at 100 miles per hour? With seven different cameras, Nicholas Loomis reports.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/assignment-27/

Bruce Bennett has been shooting with seven cameras at Canada Hockey Place in Vancouver: three at arm’s reach, with lenses of various sizes; two mounted in the rafters, pointing down to the goals; one clamped to the stanchion that holds the goal-indicator light behind a net; and one inside the net itself.

“It’s kind of like playing piano,” said Mr. Bennett, who is the director of photography for hockey imagery at Getty Images.