Great image I love the expression on the face of the dancer, and also on the face of the onlooker to the right!
Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 1:26 AM Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally, I think the phrase "Dance like noone's watching” makes about > as much sense as “Take photos as if nobody will ever look at them”. You > can’t live your life terrified of what others will think, but there are > times when it’s helpful to consider the audience. > > Be that as it may, it did seem the perfect caption for this photo: > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/49041750812/in/album-72157711715372386/ > > It was a live band night at a swing dance in Palo Alto last Wednesday, and > I spent some time playing with the camera. I learned that the 35/1.4 on > the K-1 is a bit more finicky on focus point placement than I expected. > With the 31/1.8 on the APS bodies, the shorter fl, smaller aperture and > larger focus points seemed to not only give it more depth of field, but > also more likely to focus on dancers in the foreground. In this hall, this > setup did a marvelous job of focusing on the paneling on the far wall. I > need to work at being more specific with single point focus, or maybe > trying the select 9 and see how it works. > > For those that are interested, I posted them in order of social dancing, > musicians, competition and performance. The competition and performance > are not usual occurrences at the weekly dance. > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157711715372386 > > -- > Larry Colen > [email protected] > > > > > -- > 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.
