Hi All Another GESO - but not one of my usual subjects. http://www.massey.ac.nz/~aroberts/hamlet/content/index.html
Last Sunday I went to an outdoor production of Hamlet put on by a community theatre group. It was set in the local botanical gardens, and they made very good use of the setting, moving the whole audience through the gardens as the twilight fell (mostly used my A*200 for these shots), until the final acts which were on a simple scaffold stage and a large flat area just feet from the audience. I found myself in the front row for this part, and so pulled out my 24-90 for these shots. I used a little bit of restrained built-in flash for some of the shots with -2ev dialed in (wasn't there a thread recently on whether this flash was ever useful?), since I didn't want that flashed look with blown-out highlights in the foreground and gloomy shadows in the middle and background. I mostly used the theatre spots and the dying sunlight and so many of these are high ISO shots There's a bit of noise of course, but even the 1600 shots are quite useable, and I had to use quite a slow shutter speed for some of these causing blurred subjects, though the SR worked pretty well to eliminate camera shake. Comments & critiques welcome. Alastair -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
