yes Bob, a lot of people were, including a press photographer who took hundreds with a full sized flash gun. Certainly I wouldn't in normal theatre but this was more like street theatre with the audience almost part of the set. The little built in flash dialed in to -2ev is a pretty light flash.
Alastair On 3/15/07, Bob Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You used a flash at a theater production?!! Bob S. > > On 3/14/07, Alastair Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All > > > > Another GESO - but not one of my usual subjects. > > http://www.massey.ac.nz/~aroberts/hamlet/content/index.html > > > > Last Sunday I went to an outdoor production of Hamlet put on by a > > community theatre group. It was set in the local botanical gardens, > > and they made very good use of the setting, moving the whole audience > > through the gardens as the twilight fell (mostly used my A*200 for > > these shots), until the final acts which were on a simple scaffold > > stage and a large flat area just feet from the audience. I found > > myself in the front row for this part, and so pulled out my 24-90 for > > these shots. I used a little bit of restrained built-in flash for > > some of the shots with -2ev dialed in (wasn't there a thread recently > > on whether this flash was ever useful?), since I didn't want that > > flashed look with blown-out highlights in the foreground and gloomy > > shadows in the middle and background. I mostly used the theatre spots > > and the dying sunlight and so many of these are high ISO shots > > > > There's a bit of noise of course, but even the 1600 shots are quite > > useable, and I had to use quite a slow shutter speed for some of these > > causing blurred subjects, though the SR worked pretty well to > > eliminate camera shake. > > > > Comments & critiques welcome. > > Alastair > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
