Drill Bits [Repetition]
Uploaded: May 26, 2002 11:39:49
105mm Macro, f/25, 1/160 sec.
Stephanie Adams May 26, 2002
Very nice Alan! How have you been doing? #5715Alan E. Saldinger May 27, 2002
Thanks Stephanie. I'm keeping busy - just took a long weekend photography workshop in the Eastern Sierras (around Mono Lake), and on Friday shot ~ 400 pictures as "official photographer" of our elementary school annual talent show. Maybe I should've waited a while to take UE too!Hope all is well with you and your family (and they're still letting you take their pictures :^) #8247
Stephanie Adams May 27, 2002
Wow, Alan! That is great! What did you shoot the talent show with? I am only learning how to shoot and meter outside and wouldn't know where to begin with film and metering for inside. I bet the pics came out great! Take care and talk to you later. #8250Alan E. Saldinger May 28, 2002
I had to use flash for the talent show - the lighting in there was terrible, and even putting my camera up to equivalent ISO 1600 the shutter speeds would have been way too slow for the action.The digital SLR makes it much easier to confirm one has the right exposure before it's too late - I can look at a histogram right after I snap a picture and ensure I'm not losing shadow or highlight detail. So I picked a flash exposure setting, took a few pictures and checked the histogram to confirm it was good, and then could fire away worrying I'd blow the assignment.
Once you know you've captured all the detail, in post-processing I can adjust the exposure a bit (should I want things lighter or darker) and I can tweak the white balance too (useful when the lighting is a strange mix of different types of light, which it often is when I shoot my daughters' dance performances using available light). Maybe this is "cheating", but I'll take all the help I can get :^) In a couple of years, great digital SLR bodies will be under $500 I would think - so more folks will be able to take advantage of them.
The pictures did come out well - I posted them to the web and I've had positive comments so far :^) #8257
Damian P. Gadal May 26, 2019
Good work!!! #33746Sign up for an interactive online photography course to get critiques on your photos.
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