Funny how, in every shot it's visible, the singer looks like she's holding a second mike to her chest. The lighting looks OK to me.
> On 31 July 2018 at 06:21 Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This Jazz singer is not Ms. Denoise. The band Hotsy Totsy (formerly > Rose and the Honeysuckers) played at the monthly live music night at the > local swing dance. I hadn't planned on taking photos, but on my way in > the band asked me if I was going to, and I took the hint. > > I feel that the majority of the aesthetic value of this photo is due to > the subject matter rather than the photographer. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/43755300141/in/album-72157693855328620/ > > The lighting absolutely sucked. Most of the light is above and behind > the band members. There is a color changing LED lamp to the left of the > band, so much/most of the front lighting is in wonky colors. > > At one point I got a battery powered LED lamp (from costco) and put it > on a speaker to try and improve the lighting. It helped but not enough, > so I went back out to my van and got a LED headlamp and played with it. > I make it a point to avoid using flash at dances, but I realized I could > cheat and still avoid using flash. > > For those interested, full set at: > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157693855328620 > All photos taken with K-1 and my 100/2.8 macro. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157612824732477/ > > -- > 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. -- 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.
