On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I had a very busy weekend. I was the photographer for a dance workshop, so it > worked out that in the span of 10 days, I was at dance workshops for 7 of > them. > When I got there on Thursday one of the people saw my K-x, and it turns out > that he has a K20. He was kind enough to loan me his sigma 10-20, and even > the K20 (mine should arrive home today) for most of the camp. > > Saturday night, a bunch of us went over to a house party, thrown by one of > the local dancers. Jane's parties are awesome. They're in a nice house in > Oakland, and a bunch of the dancers that are also musicians will play until > about midnight. Most of the people there were regulars in the local lindy hop > or blues dancing community, the sort of people that take their dancing about > as seriously as most of the people on this list take their photography, so > the level of dancing was quite a bit higher than you might find at a random > party. It was an amazing evening. > > Not all of the shots are as crisp and sharp as I'd like, and it's > particularly frustrating when that happens on what would otherwise be an > amazing photo, but I'm working on letting go of the quest for technical > excellence in these situations. Comments and suggestions are, of course, > welcome. I've got a lot of photos to process from the weekend, so I don't > have the time to completely polish each one in post processing at the moment. > Fortunately the new lightroom interface makes it easy to go back and clean up > shots later. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157624614275173/
1068 is my fave. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
