On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
If you want to make stupid and insulting insinuations, go right ahead. I really don't care what you think of my photography, or whether you understand what I'm doing. Your opinion is of no particular interest to me, nor is it credible, in this respect. The solution for your situation is to change the rules of the game. Offer them that you'll run with brighter illumination as a special event for a short while so that the dancers can be properly photographed, then put the camera down. Or come up with some other brilliant solution to your problem using your wits and be self-satisfied with your cleverness. If they don't want that, then forget about taking photos in conditions where photos cannot be made to the quality you desire. An "official event photographer" has to be able to call the shots to make good "official event photographs". If you can't do that, there's no point in creating crappy, blurry, underexposed photographs that look terrible. Equipment limitations are always on issue in many photographic endeavors. A Leica, or a set of star field goggles, aren't going to help you: nothing is a panacea. A Leica, no matter how much it might cost, is just another camera. And if you *are* making photos to the quality you desire, then stop whining about how hard it is and just keep working at it to make them better. That's called professionalism. -- 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.
