On Sep 22, 2012, at 5:26 AM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:27 AM, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Unless you're making a living from a particular kind of job, you >>> always have those luxuries. Change the light. :-) >> >> Bah... For some of us, the good pictures are found not staged. -T > > LOL ... I didn't say to stage anything. I said "change the light."
That's not always an option. Dancers appreciate getting photos of themselves, but they don't appreciate a flash. And I can certainly appreciate that. Last weekend there was someone shooting by bouncing her flash off high ceilings, from the floor, and every time she took a shot, it hurt my eyes. I tried to suggest that she at least put up the catchlight card to bounce some of it forward but she said she tried it and didn't like it. I wasn't making my living at photography, but I was the official event photographer. I had the light that was there, fast moving subjects, a K-5 and my wits. I did what I could with what I had. Sometimes, perfectly sharp just isn't possible, especially on a Pentax rather than a Leica budget. I have to settle for "as sharp as I can get it" and concentrate on capturing the moment. I guess that when I get tired of blurry, noisy photos of dancers in dimly lit rooms, I can try photographing dead leaves on the sidewalk, or people sipping lattes in a coffee shop. :-) > > Do my photos look as if I stage things? > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
