A first for me, after bedtime, Emily inspired.

Ron Evers · Feb 5, 2011

I have watched with interest Emily's club shooting & thought I would like to try it someday. Last night I got my chance. We went out to dinner & then to the cultural center to watch a show with four folk singer/songwriters.

I mounted a Minolta 50/1.4 on my wife's GF1 which she only uses on full auto & jpeg. I switched it to aperiture priority & set the lens to f2.0. About 2/3 through the evening I realized I was shooting in jpeg & then switched to RAW. I was advised that flash was frowned upon so I had to shoot with available light. At first I was shooting @ ISO 400 but all I got were blurred images so I reluctantly upped the ISO to 800.

So here is my first attempt at shooting "in the dark".

1. Wife in the lobby where there was light.

2.

3. Singing

4. Watching/Listening

5. Singing

6. Watching/Listening

7.

I took my wife's camera because my pop-up flash quit but if I can't use flash I will use my camera the next time.

eccs19 · Feb 5, 2011

White balance if off on the first shot. Mom's hair looks to blue / green.

I like the second one best out of the bunch. Were these cropped? If not, you must have been close to them with a 50mm.

tirediron · Feb 5, 2011

Good work Ron, especially given the circumstances.

e.rose · Feb 5, 2011

I'm glad I was able to inspire you :sillysmi:

I would have to say that the second one is my favorite as well.

You just have to work a little more on your focus and you'll be golden. :sillysmi:

Ron Evers · Feb 5, 2011

Mark, I played with the WB in #1 but could not get it right in LR, maybe because it was a jpeg. We had a front row table & there is cropping on most if not all shots.

Emily, I was using a manual focus lens & am reasonably confident the focus was on but I was suffering from motion blur as the subjects were quite active. The best shutter speed I obtained was 1/50s.

The fellow in shot #2 had the best light of the lot. I did a test shot of the stage before they started @ ISO 400 & was cheered by the result. However, as soon as the main man (#7) came on stage to introduce everyone he asked the light man to reduce the lights as he likes to see the audience - my heart sank. The brightest light in the room seemed to be coming from my camera screen. :grumpy: