Theatre company dress rehersal - comments please

Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS USM

04/05/2005 07:51:25 AM · #1

On Sunday night I had the opporunity to take pics of a dress rehersal for a local theatre company. There was another photographer there who was shooting on film and using a flash, all my pics were done using the stage lights (I did a few test pics with my SB600 but it was not nice). I used a 50mm 1.8 for all the images (aperture priority switching between f1.8 and f2.8 when there was enough light), I also use an Olympus TCON17 as a front mounted teleconverter (so that I would not lose light) to take me to 85mm.

Any comments would be appreciated, the images can be viewed here.

Thanks in advance :)

Darren

Skip

Canon EOS-1D X

04/05/2005 08:04:19 AM · #2

nice work, darren. did you shoot raw or jpg?

04/05/2005 08:09:10 AM · #3

Originally posted by skiprow:

nice work, darren. did you shoot raw or jpg?

RAW + JPEG (basic quality), although I've not even opened any of the RAW's yet, all the images are basic JPEG's direct from the camera (only resized)

Neuferland

Google Pixel 2

04/05/2005 08:16:15 AM · #4

Some really nice shots there! I left a comment on only one of them though, I love dramatic lighting, my weakness! :)

Deannda
Thinking flash would have ruined the mood of the shots

Nuno

Nikon D700

04/05/2005 08:30:03 AM · #5

I love the lightning. It's just wonderfull to get this kind of photos withought the use of flash. Neuferland is right, the flash should ruinned the mood and the soft light of them.

04/05/2005 09:58:48 AM · #6

bump

Thanks for the comments so far, more comments are always appreciated :)

I'm going this evening to take some backstage candids

crabappl3

04/05/2005 10:30:12 AM · #7

Those look good. I often shoot the dress rehearsals for the local high school that my daughter performs in. The D70 is definitely up to the task. I haven't tried the 50mm TCON17 combo, but if in a pinch I will remember that idea. I usually stick the 70-200 VR on and use stage lighting as well. Here's a link to their Fall production. I think they turned out decent.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

-danny

04/05/2005 11:24:51 AM · #8

Originally posted by crabappl3:

Cheers danny,

Your pics look pretty good to me :)

I did think about using my 70-210 (non VR) but with the lighting available I was struggling to get 1/60s @ f1.8 (ISO:800).

I think my next lens will be the 24-120 VR :)