On Mar 17, 2012, at 4:38 AM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > That's a very interesting and unusual image, despite the pretty girls. > <G> I like the way you dealt with the very bright areas ad the dark > areas, without totally losing anything. Even the head of hair in the > lower left, while perhaps a bit distracting, adds depth to the scene > and implies more action than can be shown in the frame.
Thanks Dan. I used a little more technique than "spray and pray" but not much. As with fire dancers, this is one case where I use the autoexposure with the AF540. I just expose for the lights, and fill with the flash. I bumped the ISO up to 800 so I could bounce the flash and not get too beaten up too bad by inverse square blowing out the people in the foreground. The composition may have been purely luck, as I took a lot of the shots with the camera over my head so I could get a clear shot past the crowds watching. But, as has been discussed, I'm still immature enough in my photographic development that I still consider pretty girls to be a feature, rather than a bug. > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mar 16, 2012, at 6:27 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >>> >>> If I'm lucky, I too will outgrow my present fascination with imaging >>> expressions of femininity. :-) Beware the siren call, Larry, lest you >>> too start looking for suitable LBDs and Fendi heels. Unless it's for >>> yourself. I understand that that's ok. >> >> I've got the sinking feeling that photos of pretty girls is a level of >> mediocrity that I'm never going to rise above. >> As a matter of fact, I spent the evening tonight at the Santa Cruz Museum of >> Art and History, and what did I end up taking photos of? >> >> http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/6989140377/ >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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.
