You used a flash at a theater production?!! Bob S. On 3/14/07, Alastair Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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