On 2 Aug 2002 at 18:16, Artur Led�chowski wrote: > It seems that NGH II 800 nicely compensates for different color temperature of > the available light. It's grain and sharpness seems to be really good, too. I > definitely have to give it a try... I especially like the pic of the woman > looking up. It's a nice portrait.
Hi Artur, I too like NGH II 800 very much for its wide latitude and low contrast, it's great for many high contrast applications. The pics that I presented were however shot with my Oly E-10. On 2 Aug 2002 at 18:36, Lukasz Kacperczyk wrote: > I too like the portrait of the woman best. IMHO it's the only one of these > photos that doesn't need cropping. But otherwise they are very good - I love > blurred pictures (I'm in the "bokeh- blurry-slow-shutter" period now :) > > BTW - as Artur has already mentioned, very natural skin colors (well, > bearing in mind indoor lighs of course). Hi Lukasz, I just wish the effective ISO of the Oly was higher, as the light was very poor so the exposure was 0.5s and the subject moved. I set the colour balance for warm tungsten light I didn't white balance but if I had the skin colour would have been near perfect. On 2 Aug 2002 at 13:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Rob. > > I wonder, does your Olympus have slow speed flash sync? > I have found that these smaller gigs with their limited lighting ie no white > follow spots, often benefit from a slow speed with fill approach - around 1/8th > or so often works. I know we are "not supposed to" use flash but Frits has a > nice example of what I mean - unless he has dumped it?? (It's on my broken > drive). Also the predominantly reddish lighting doesn't help; switching to > tungsten like a lot of photo magazine features suggest is simply ghastly. I > will await your LXen pix with bated breath. Hi Peter, The Oly has SS Sync and full FS to 1/640th however I flash wasn't appropriate in this instance. (+Paul) The LXen pix may be a while away, have to sell some gear on the Bay before I can afford a new LS8000 scanner, that is of course unless the Pentax DSLR doesn't come first (I think I'm safe). On 2 Aug 2002 at 16:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > UGH! I've done this myself! > Rob, I totally sympathize with your plight here. It's a tricky environment to > shoot in. I've been doing a lot of shooting of bands lately and it's definately > a harrowing experience. I have had good luck simply pushing 800 color neg and, > of course, pushing Tri-X. There is no excuse however .....it was reaalllyyy loud and I would normally have heard the camera also since it was dark I couldn't really see indicators in the finder too well plus they only played for one short set so it was pretty rushed and I was sharing the lens set amongst two bodies. I kicked myself for not double checking like I should have. :-( > Here's a couple I got recently of a group in San Francisco. These were taken > with the LX (with the SC-69), 85mm f1.4, on consumer 800 rated 1600 and pushed. > I didn't use any color correction: > I was able to get some fairly quick speeds out of the LX (1/125?) as I recall > that night. Most of the shots were wide open on aperture-priority. It appears as > though your group didn't have nearly the same amount of light on them. I was > lucky enough to put the word out that I needed more light so the guy I knew in > the band had the tech leave the house lights at 50% for the whole show. This > made all the difference. That allowed me to go from a 1/8 to a 1/30 at center > stage. I figured as long as they don't jump around too much I'd be OK. I still > managed to shoot mostly at 1/60 sec or slightly faster as the lights changed > throughout the show. Hi Brendan, Great shots, I hope I get out of it that well, you're quite right too the lights were crappy old style spots all gelled and the lighting guy had had one too many tokes I suspect :-) When I was with it and aware I was seeing shutter speeds of 1/30 and 1/60th on occasions. They are a pretty active bunch so I'm just hoping that they're recognizable, I would have like to have been shooting at 1600 as it would have given me a little more latitude. I used all the lenses wide open, I shot sitting on the ground, standing and resting lightly on the fold back speakers (24mm straight up), it looked pretty interesting in the finder. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
