On Aug 4, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Chris Mitchell wrote: > On 4 August 2011 11:01, Larry Colen wrote: >> I was photographing some friends playing in a bar tonight, and decided to >> see how the K-5 would do with the 18-250. In order to shoot Livia at >> 250mmm, 1/40 Sec and f/6.3 I had to crank the ISO up to 12,800. I'm fairly >> happy with the photograph but close to ecstatic to see what the K-5 can do >> under these conditions: >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6007734165/in/set-72157627353833070/ >> >> If you're curious about the rest of the set: >> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157627353833070/ >> >> I forgot my bag of light modifiers at home. I tried making a snoot for the >> 540 out of a ricola bag, but it didn't work so well, so most of these are >> ambient light. >> > That's an excellent shot Larry - and the rest are good too. Ambient is > good for gig photography - especially if you can get high ISO > performance as good as that.
Thank you. Ideally, I like to use a gridded strobe as fill, just on the musicians face, to bring color balance in, and increase sharpness. With a grid on the strobe, and just enough for fill, the flash doesn't act like a photon grenade, and people hardly notice it. > > I thought she'd switched to left handed in this one: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6007733745/ I was expecting the flyer in the upper right corner to be a bit more prominent. In many ways I liked the lighting from that angle better than what I could get straight on. > > But the exit sign's a bit of a give away. I suppose I could flip it and let people wonder how I got a flyer to levitate in mid air over her. > > Chris > > Chris > > -- > 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.
