I was asked to take photos at a party last night. I shot everything
with the K20D at 3200 using my Sigma 20/1.8 wide open at 1/20. The
party was dimly lit with a few red bulbs, Scott calls his parties
"Blues in Red". This was a birthday party for one of the local blues
dancers who recently moved up to Seattle.
In the blues and swing dance communities, when someone has a birthday,
they get a birthday jam, where the dancer(s) being jammed will be in
the middle of the circle and the other dancers will take turns
stealing them, and dancing until someone else steals them.
Most of the focusing was done by manually focusing on something at
about the right distance and relying on depth of field and luck,
mostly luck.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157623436322776/
While I'm getting better at understanding that a good photograph
doesn't always have to be sharp, it's usually best if the subject is
recognizable. It would sure be nice to have a bit more shutter speed,
a bit more depth of field, or a bit less noise.
Even so, it was a fun night of dancing, and I think a couple of these
shots are keepers. No special processing was done on most of them
apart from cropping and some slight exposure tweaking.
--
Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est
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