Well, I learned a LOT on this one... 670 RAW images filled up a 4GB card and a 1GB card once and almost a second time on the 1GB.
The lighting was very tricky and there was no flash allowed, so I did the best I could... I also felt like I was wrestling with my 50mm f/1.8 lens a lot of the time as it couldn't keep up with the pace of what I was trying to do. I'm seriously considering upgrading to the 50mm f/1.4 in a couple of months after I move closer to the Canon factory. I hear that it handles much faster and focuses much more accurately.
A lot of the shots were dead dull because of the nature of the show, and most of the smaller kids were just so stunned that they had little expression in their performances (an audience of a few hundred), but the performances got some very fun pics from the bigger kids.
If you want to, you can feel free to browse the bunch of them
here or you can just look below once I finish organizing...
I do have one pic that I feel could really use some more work.
I think it needs something to break up the softness in his face (growls at the 50mm lens). Maybe a grunge type scratches filter... It's actually the only shot of the bunch that I actually coached.
Any of you guys who are good at grunge stuff got any tips?
Feel free to play with it a bit...
Some highlights from the ceremony part:
    
    
  
They also put on some performances and plays... There was a play about Snow white called The Bad Snow White, where the mirror tells Snow White that she's the most Beautiful, but adds a little bit about the second most beautiful... She gets enraged and decides to kill her... things don't quite go as planned...
Another show was about the rematch between the tortoise and the hare's famous race...
A couple of others were a bit harder to follow and I didn't quite get the story... (see the tin man)
I really wish that I had a shorter range zoom lens (still waiting for the Tokina 16-50 f/2.8... HURRY UP GUYS!), but I wasn't getting paid enough for the job to justify getting a lens that I don't know if I will want or not for it.... and the kit lens was just not fast enough for the light.
I ended up missing a lot of shots... Please also note that I was not shooting the plays themselves, but was shooting with a view of getting shots of the kids in the plays, so the stories were ignored. Once I got a decent shot of a kid, I tried to move on... Tough to do with two or three principal actors only...
Here are some further highlights from the plays and performances:
    
    
 
Enjoy!
Feel free to give me criticism and tips!!!
Obviously tips on perspective and changing my angle might not really be pertinent to these shots as I was only allowed to stand at the front below the stage and at the sides of the auditorium. A number of shots would have been improved if I had the Wide Angle zoom though...
Message edited by author 2006-07-15 22:35:52. |
