Larry, Have you tried infrared flash for this stuff. Long ago a friend gave me some shots he captured for the yearbook at a dark music weekend. Compromising photos he conveniently 'lost'. Regards, Bob S.
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. -- 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.
