On Jan 21, 2013, at 6:09 PM, Collin Brendemuehl wrote: > The studio where we are taking dancing lessons may hire me for their annual > gala event.
Very cool. What sort of dance? Ballroom? People dancing argentine tango will be moving slower and easier to keep focus on than folks dancing polka. > I'm going to do some test shots on Thur. after our class to see about > getting the poses that they would like to see. > My question is: Do you think the on-camera flash is adequate or should I > use something more powerful to capture dancers? > If so, manual or auto, dedicated or non-dedicated? Which body do you have? What is the lighting there like? I've seen about six stops of variation in lighting at dances. How big is the performance area? If you have a K-5 and a reasonably fast 28-35mm lens, you may be best off shooting without flash. If you shoot with flash, be particularly aware of mirrors, windows etc. Also, will these be couples performances or group performances? If you are shooting a group and your flash is at the edge of the dance floor, It could be five feet away from the nearest dancers, and 20 to 40 feet away from the furthest. Inverse square law on a 6x difference in distance is 36 times, or about five stops. Do everything you can to minimize this ratio, which usually means moving the flash as far back as you can, possibly bouncing it, or using several flashes. Painful experience has taught me to push the ISO harder than you think you should. Noise is better than too much motion blur, or too little depth of field. -- 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.
