I was asked to be the photographer for a dance workshop last weekend.
In exchange for taking photos I got free admission, nominally about a
$160 value. Mind you, I ended up missing out on most of the social
dancing because I was so busy dealing with stuff to photograph the
performances and contests. But I think it'll be good exposure and
maybe help me get the "official photographer" slot at other events.
It was interesting being able to use strobes, and to set them up the
best I could rather than just doing the available light or the AF540
on the camera thing.
Despite the difficulties I was having with my lighting, I think I got
some decent shots last weekend. As I said, one of my white lightnings
fried as I was setting things up Friday night. I had been planning on
bouncing the studio strobes off the ceiling, but figured that up in
the mezzanine would be a lot safer, unfortunately for various reasons
bounce didn't work well up there. So I had the working studio strobe
on one side of the room and three camera strobes (AF54 and two
promasters) optically slaved on the other side. Fortunately, with them
way up there, other camera flashes didn't trigger them.
I did a quick pass through the 2600 frames and put together a teaser
set of the ones that leapt out as keepers. Now I've got to go and sort
them to contests and awards, classes, social dancing, performances
etc...
Teaser set on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157622962803714/
they may be easier to view at
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157622962803714/
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Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
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