That's a good shot. Looks like you did it right. Your flash exposure is close to ambient because the background is lit. For this type of job I'd shoot with flash as well, unless the lighting was really quite good. I'd do some wide shots without flash. But even at 6400 ISO, you're not going to get the shutter speed you need for crisp results in a dimly lit room. For athletic events, like basketball, you have to shoot without flash because the flash is disruptive. For that reason, I shot the pool tournament without flash last week. At 6400, I could only get f2.8 @ 1/40th for some shots. However, most sporting events have a lot more light than a pool hall. Paul On Jan 30, 2010, at 1:25 AM, Christine Aguila wrote:
> Hi Everyone: > > I shot a political event/fundraiser tonight as a friendly favor; I didn't > really have a good night of it--I've got a cold & don't feel my best, but > that wasn't the biggest frustration--it's all those in-the-way balloons and > decorations, bad lighting, boring microphone shots, trying to isolate folks > for some good pics, ugly, ugly walls and backgrounds--etc, etc. Anyway, this > pic of our governor, Pat Quinn, is what it is, but if anyone has any advice > for shooting events, I'd be grateful. > > http://tiny.cc/Ejb7A > > > http://www.caguila.com/caguila/quinn/content/fundraiser_85_large.html > > The primary is next Tuesday. After I took this picture, the governor said, > "well, young lady, you got me." I was grateful he referred to me as young. > > Comments welcome > Cheers, Christine > > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
