Art/Lovers

[otherprof]

At a lecture about Picasso and Rivera at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this morning.

 

[Derrel]

Nice shot. Has feeling to it.

 

[otherprof]

Nice shot. Has feeling to it.

Thanks, Derrel. And I had to "make" this one! Getting the color right took me a while. I actually posted a version almost right out of the camera, but deleted it and got to work and then replaced it.

 

[Gary A.]

Hey, if you're in LA, PM me for a coffee.

 

[Derrel]

Nice shot. Has feeling to it.

Thanks, Derrel. And I had to "make" this one! Getting the color right took me a while. I actually posted a version almost right out of the camera, but deleted it and got to work and then replaced it.

I have had to shoot similar lecture/ AV presentation shots. Might not be readily apparent to some, but this is a time/place when a soft-edged, two to four-stop ND grad filter can help bring the screen brightness wayyyyy down. The speaker is sometimes "lit up" by a hot spotlight, so it can be a bugger to get those audience members AND the presenter/lecturer's image to look relatively normal. Kind of depends on each auditorium and the AV director's presentation idea AND the audience light level.

In the 1980's, projectors were I think weaker, and the audience was often almost totally,totally in the dark! It was awful! Today, we seem to have bigger p[rojctors, from closer-up, with higher output, so the audience no longer sits in near-blackness.

No matter how you did it, it still reads right to me...speaker, AV, the couple in the audience. It's more about the feeling than the technical on this.