Thanks Dave. I don't mind a bit of noise with this kind of shooting. The toughest part of this was dealing with motion blur at slow shutter speeds. The woman singer was very active, so I had to crank it up to ISO 20,000 for her. Still had some motion problems, but got a few decent keepers. I'm sure the band wouldn't have minded if I had bounced a flash off the ceiling for a few dozen shots or so, but I wanted to see what I could do shooting in the dark. Had some problems locking focus of course. If you look closely, you'll notice that on the shots of the older drummer from straight on, the focus locked on the wing nut on the top of the high hat. But generally, I was pretty impressed that the K5 could focus at all in this light. Back in the day, I could easily have focused manually here. No more. Paul On May 26, 2011, at 5:39 PM, David J Brooks wrote:
> Nice gallery and good job. The noise in the B&W's are kinda cool > > Dave > > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> > wrote: >> A friend's light jazz band played at a seedy local bar last night. His kid's >> rock band opened for them. The place was dark as hell, so I had to shoot at >> 12,800 and 20,000, wide open with the DA* 50-135/2.8. Most shots are at >> about 1/40th and 135mm. Some are as slow as 1/8th. Lots of fun. Lots of >> noise -- on all counts! >> >> http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=1006615 >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
