It's a great shot. The motion blur mostly works well. On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Larry Colen <l...@red4est.com> wrote: > I spent the past two weekends as "the official photographer" at a couple of > similar events. First, a five day aikido workshop, last weekend was a dance > workshop. > > On Friday night they had a "dance jam" for the instructors, where the > instructors would be dancing, and over the course of the song, people would > steal them and dance with them for a while, until the next person stole them. > This shot of Heidi Fite is one of my favorites from the weekend: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/5953666612/in/set-72157627229809508 > > I found myself thinking a lot about goals and techniques of shooting in > various contexts. Despite my goal to shoot fewer, better, shots, I often > feel that when shooting action I just have to shoot when something might > happen, because if I wait until it has happened it's too late to get the > shot. I also noticed that I often have so much to pay attention to when > taking a photo, I'm pretty much overwhelmed, trying to maintain focus on a > moving person in a dark room, keep track of whether my line of sight is > clear, whether the camera is level, whether the subjects are in even lighting > that any sudden change, sound or motion is interpreted by my finger as "time > to press the shutter". > > Another thing I noticed this weekend is just what an amazing camera the K-5 > is. When I got my K-x, I was blown away by it's performance in low light. > The above photo of Heidi was shot with the 16-50 at f/2.8 ISO 6400, this > shot was taken with the K-x at f/1.8 ISO 3200 > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/5953105529/in/set-72157627229809508 > > When I'm looking at shots taken by the K-x and disappointed by the level of > noise, then I know that I'm spoiled. Incidentally, at the same event, in the > same room, two years ago, I tried taking some photos with my nearly new K20, > and was so disappointed with the results, even compared with my K100, that I > thought my camera was broken, and didn't even bother taking many photos. > > At one of the after hours dances (that run from midnight to 4AM) a friend was > talking to me about my dance photos, and how interesting it was watching my > progress, and how much I'd improved. As much as my technique has improved, > it's very interesting to note the progress of equipment over the past few > years, K100, IR modified Lumix, K20, K-x and K-5. I like to think that my > technical skill is a big part of the process, but there is no way that I > could get a lot of the shots I took this weekend with a K100. I was shooting > in a fairly dark room, with slow (f/2.8) glass, at 1/60 second. Welcome to > the twenty-freaking-first century. > > While I got a lot of shots that I think will make a lot of people happy, and > some that can be considered great quality for the conditions, I'm really > looking forward to doing some shooting where I'm not compromising the > technical quality for the conditions. > > -- > Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > 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. >
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