My first fashion show (too)

[dnavarrojr]

The vast majority of the work I do is in video and I love my T2i for that work. However, once I got it, I started getting into doing stills. As favors for some friends I did some portraits and product shots. This past weekend I was asked to shoot stills and video from a bridal fair runway show.

Canon T2i
Canon EF-S 18-55mm Kit Lens
No flash

Also, I was able to attend the rehearsal the day before and take a lot of test shots. I was shooting at 1600 ISO and my shots were still underexposed and had a ton of noise.

When I shot these during the live show, the people in the seats actually enhanced the lighting (the empty chairs during the rehearsal reflected very little) so I was able to shoot at 800 ISO and 1/250th. I still had some noise, but not enough that PhotoShop couldn't fix the majority of it.

Also, I knew where I was going to be sitting during the show, so I worked with the lighting guys to eliminate some shadow problems I had during the rehearsal.

Had I know all my best shots were the wide shot, I would have used my 28mm 1.8 instead of the kit zoom.

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[R.D.]

the first one would be so much better to me had she been looking away.. nice shots but nothing eye popping here for me.. I like the exposure on the second one though.