Larry Colen wrote:
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 11:45:16AM -0500, Bruce Walker wrote:
# Solo dancer seen in a bar on Sunday from the dancefloor as I was
# shooting the house band. Illuminated from behind by east-facing windows
# covered with fabric blinds, and what little light bounces from the
# stage, right.
Without the above, I wouldn't know what was going on, even so I like
it. I think that the guitar helps add context, without it she might
just be a crazy homeless person on the street.
That may be the case anyway; there's been speculation. :-)
#
# Normally I try very hard for sharpness, but I'm pushing my personal
# boundaries and trying to catch dynamic shots, keeping HCB in mind. :-)
I spend a lot of time shooting dancers. I have a lot of shots that I
wish were that sharp.
I was grappling with a few new ideas at once there too. I was trying to
use the SDM lens on AF-Continuous, but I'm used to setting the AF point
dead center. Trouble is of course, there is *no* subject dead center.
And then she's dancing toward and away from me, so the focus -- though
fast -- was struggling to keep up. At that point I think I had decided
to switch back to MF and just try and do a sort of manual focus-capture,
and take bursts of shots.
I was almost sweating after 10 minutes of that! It's all great fun
though. I'm re-reading the manual today to brush up on AF capabilities.
The funny thing is that as photographers, we can look at a picture and
see all of the technical flaws, everything that is wrong with it. Then
my friends will look at a picture of them dancing and they'll see
everythign right with it. It may not be a sharp picture, but it may be
the sharpest picture they have of them dancing.
It's important to look at the technical aspects of a photograph in
terms of context. And, in that context, it's plenty sharp, and the
blur, if anything adds to the environmental context of it.
Quite so; point taken.
Thanks for the encouraging words, Larry!
-bmw
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