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Hypnohare
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Hi All:
I'm not one to usually post a photo on this forum, but an interesting situation came up.
I was on a cruise ship a few days ago and the cruise director asked me if I could take a photo of him while he presented a speech to the audience.
Basically, he needed the shot for his website and the only thing he required was that the photo be in color and I had to include both him and the audience. So in other words the photo was to present him as a man who had experience speaking before large crowds.
His speech was about 15 minutes and that was basically my little window of opportunity to get the shot. Equipment wise all I had was my handheld Ricoh GR II and the 40 mm convertor lens.
This assignment turned out to be pretty tricky in terms of exposure. Because in the little time I was allotted, I tried shooting my subject from many different angles. From the audience, I took a few shots in the orchestra as well as from the balcony. Every time I exposed for the cruise directors face, the audience was way too dark. And if I exposed for the audience, the cruise directors face was blown out.
I reasoned that I might have some luck with a backlit shot so I quickly ran backstage and took a few shots from the wings. While backstage I noticed a small hole in the stage curtain near the floor.
I then got down on my belly, set the focus, dialed the camera to f2.4, 1/30, 28mm, ISO 400 and stuck the lens of the GR II through the hole of the curtain. Using the Live View of the LCD, I tried to time my shot so that I caught my subject when he was directly in between me and the spotlight.
Below is a low res copy of the shot. The cruise director was very happy with the photo.
The funny thing is if I had a DSLR, I would have never been able to stick a lens through that small hole in the curtain!
Levent
I'm not one to usually post a photo on this forum, but an interesting situation came up.
I was on a cruise ship a few days ago and the cruise director asked me if I could take a photo of him while he presented a speech to the audience.
Basically, he needed the shot for his website and the only thing he required was that the photo be in color and I had to include both him and the audience. So in other words the photo was to present him as a man who had experience speaking before large crowds.
His speech was about 15 minutes and that was basically my little window of opportunity to get the shot. Equipment wise all I had was my handheld Ricoh GR II and the 40 mm convertor lens.
This assignment turned out to be pretty tricky in terms of exposure. Because in the little time I was allotted, I tried shooting my subject from many different angles. From the audience, I took a few shots in the orchestra as well as from the balcony. Every time I exposed for the cruise directors face, the audience was way too dark. And if I exposed for the audience, the cruise directors face was blown out.
I reasoned that I might have some luck with a backlit shot so I quickly ran backstage and took a few shots from the wings. While backstage I noticed a small hole in the stage curtain near the floor.
I then got down on my belly, set the focus, dialed the camera to f2.4, 1/30, 28mm, ISO 400 and stuck the lens of the GR II through the hole of the curtain. Using the Live View of the LCD, I tried to time my shot so that I caught my subject when he was directly in between me and the spotlight.
Below is a low res copy of the shot. The cruise director was very happy with the photo.
The funny thing is if I had a DSLR, I would have never been able to stick a lens through that small hole in the curtain!
Levent
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