On Aug 15, 2011, at 5:06 AM, Walt Gilbert wrote: > You got some great shots in there, Larry -- > <http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/6044114689/>20110813-LRC24134.jpg > <http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/6044114689/> has to be my favorite > of the bunch and20110813-LRC24174.jpg > <http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/6044666818/> is a close 2nd.
Thanks. > > I really need to learn how to work better in mixed lighting situations. I've > lost some potentially nice shots because I don't know what's going to freak > out the metering. That's only a problem if you trust the metering. The short answer is that bright lights in the photo will freak out the metering, so you have to go to manual (easy to do with K and M lenses), meter on what you care about, then take a test shot without the bright area in the frame, chimping the histogram. I take advantage of digital being so cheap by using my camera as a hand held light meter. I almost always take a quick test, throwaway, shot to check the metering, and to look for anything else I forgot. > > I wish I could've stayed out in CA a while longer. There's just so much to > photograph out there. Come back again sometime soon. > > -- Walt > > On 8/15/2011 12:10 AM, Larry Colen wrote: >> For the past two years there's been a weekly dance in SF called The Rent >> Party. Lindy hop in one room, Blues in another. For various reasons, they >> decided to close up shop and last night was their final night, with two live >> bands. >> >> The lindy room had a couple of lights in the middle of the room aimed at the >> floor, but the musicians were primarily illuminated by a couple of lights >> aimed at the wall behind them. The blues room was light by four clamp >> lights, with red bulbs bounced off the walls. Two of which were behind the >> musicians. >> >> I also didn't want to use flash, because it's rather obnoxious when you're >> dancing in a dark room to have a strobe go off in your face. So, all in all, >> the lighting was quite challenging. There were a few shots where I just >> took the bad lighting and tried to see what I could do with it, pushing it >> even further over the edge in post processing. >> >> Not everything is quite as sharp as I'd like, but I think I got some fun >> shots out of it: >> http://www.flickriver.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157627311775827/ >> >> -- >> Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est >> >> >> >> >> > > > -- > 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. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
