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Okay, let’s start with the telephoto suggestion. I figured I didn’t need it. But at the last minute, I brought it anyway, just in case.
//I didn’t need it. The ‘stage’ was a grassy knoll about 40 feet wide by 30 feet deep. It was outdoors, near sunset (and into sunset) and I’m right up front, surrounded by kids and families; tough to move around (I did so best I could), so pretty much everything was with the 50mm f/1.8 (85mm equiv), set from f/1.8 to f/2.5, ISO starting at 200 and on down to 800 as the light grew more dim. Thus, everything is pretty much portraiture. (These have been resized and sharpened for G+, then again for here, so there’s less bokeh than in the larger versions)
There was no fire dancer; the church ixney’d it (damn!). But I had a ball anyway, and I’m invited back to do it again. I have an album up over at my G+ with larger images, but here’s 20 at farktography sizes, and the story behind them.
This is my apt. mgr’s daughter, who participates. It’s the first shot I took, before they blocked the choreography. She is absolutely gorgeous, and if she were my daughter, I’d give U-man a run for his money in the contests, weekly.
Two choreography shots:
Focus on the hands (which I didn’t get in the live show due to my angle at the time):
One hawt 20-something gui hamming it up for me:
//Dayum–I think I’m likin’ this current generation of Samoan! I digress…
First dance shots. I like the flow of the skirt in this one:
And the pose here:
Next was a soloist. The sun was waffling through the trees; the bigger, higher quality image captures it more nicely than this one, but you get the idea:
And another:
I liked the backlighting with my apt. mgr’s daughter here:
And this guy seems to be saying ‘oh hai!’:
You could call this “The Wave” (bigger image has more golden light to it):
This guy was a ham:
The stud muffin from earlier (my 2nd favorite shot of him):
I liked this for both poses:
This small shot doesn’t do justice to the light on Mr. Stud Muffin, but it’s my favorite shot of him. For that reason, I linky to bigger/better quality right after. Woof.
http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/aug/04/hula116.jpg
Be careful, Madge, you’re stroking in it. (be still my throbbing–err–beating heart.)
//I digress
Girlfriend, let me tell you somethin’:
All pretty ladies, lined up in a row:
I just liked her. Sue me.
The ginger was quite fair:
I liked the motion in this one:
And last, a group shot. Funny thing; they wanted a ‘nature’ background here. Yellow light to the left (from the camera vantage), bluer light to the right. Took some processing to even that out some. I didn’t use flash–on camera flash sucks and flattens, and it wouldn’t reach the tree in the background anyway.
But there was another schmuck (besides me that is), next to me [using a Nikon, of course–did I type that out loud? ;o) ], and he was using his camera’s flash. So I just set the camera to 1-1/3 seconds on the tripod, and ‘borrowed’ his light (effectively off-camera for me) while he shot, and got the tree because my settings were more appropriate for it. There’s super-mild ghosting in the full res image, but it’s not evident in post with a wee bit of adjustments.
My Apt. mgr. will probably like that I got the background (he was shooting hand-held, so surely he had a fast shutter speed). I’ll just tell her I know how to take pictures better than he did. She’ll never know the real truth.
//I’ll admit it’s not perfect– ginger is *way* too bright, and people were obscured, but at least the overall lighting is good. 😛
You can view the better res G+ album via this link:
https://plus.google.com/photos/107857888121727893520/albums/5773136113564682593
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