On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:04 AM, Derby Chang wrote:
Larry Colen wrote:
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.
That is one sensual set of pics.
Blues is a pretty sensual dance. Very similar to tango in many
respects, I happen to like the music a lot better.
More than a few keepers I think.
Thank you.
Leopard print girl must have been exhausted the morning after
One of the nice things about blues dancing is that you don't tend to
get sweaty and tired. Colleen was one of the people still dancing when
I left at 3:30.
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