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Event & social
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I’m just back from a very good old college pal’s 40th birthday
bash ( I guess that gives away my vintage ….)I like taking candid shots that reflect and capture the atmosphere
of a social and nostalgic event.Comments & Criticism welcome.
Equipment , D200, 17-55mm f/2.8 DX, SB-800 bouncecard–Ian
A wider selection are in the online gallery at :
http://iplittle.smugmug.com/gallery/2205511The first one suffers from having that big bright thing in the bottom corner (piece of paper?). For me, the best of the bunch is the third shot.
Hi
You done very well here to balance for mixed lighting conditions,well done :D ,my only nit pick would be that you could isolate your subjects more,this can be done with a shallow depth of field(DOF) or carefull consideration when composing.
Ben 8)Thanks for C&C Ben. You do have a point about depth of field. I was working at fairly close
distances in relatively low light (albeit with flash). I opted for f/6.3 rather than f/5.6 or f/4 or
thereabouts because I was being conservative about getting faces in focus. There are a few
in the gallery where I do have some nice out-of-focus areas.Antifuse – you are right about paper obstructing the bottom corner of the first one. I could
clone/crop to minimise its distracting effect. Folks were there from a singing group and hence
the sheets of paper which made shooting and composing tricky. People were most animated
while singing or listening to the music so that was around the time in which I snapped a lot
of the shots.Someone on another forum mentioned to me that I should consider using the tungsten gel/filter
which comes with the SB800 bundle. I must break that out and give it a go to see if it helps
with mixed lighting flash photos.–Ian
Hi Ian
Personally i would stop it all the way down to 2.8 especially if you are only concentrating on one subject in particular,plus it will give you a slightly higher shutter speed when needed in poor light. Tungsten is always a pain especially not very kind to skin tones( upma-lumpa syndrome)(just being tangoed!).. :D but a gel might balance things out a bit more or a custom white balance off a grey card might be more accurate.A longer and faster lens would help with all the above but with a hefty price tag,who knows what santa may bring? :lol:
Ben
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