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Newbie, D80 settings for School concert
cen wrote:
Hey I'm new with a D80 and somewhat limited experience, but have taken some great photos with it. Tomorrow night is concert night in the school auditorium and I'm think about setting it on program mode to Full Auto is not the greatest option, but usually will produce something somewhat usable. shoot. Wondering what other settings you'd use. That very much depends on what effect you want to achieve. Portrait mode is good for some shots. Other shots will be much better with Night Portrait, yet others with Night Landscape. More experienced people would probably use apperture or shutter priority or even full manual mode to get exactly the effect they are looking for, but that requires a lot of practice. Flash is allowed. PLEASE keep in mind that the build-in flash of any camera is _VERY_ limited in range and don't try to illuminate the whole stage from the last row. Besides being annoying to the performers as well as your fellow spectators flash should be used very carefully anyway. It is so easy to blast a romatic scene into a hard cold flat picture by using frontal flash. Of course on the other hand using e.g. the right amount of slow fill flash at the right moment can produce stunningly beautiful photos. jue |
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Newbie, D80 settings for School concert
"Jürgen Exner" wrote in message
... PLEASE keep in mind that the build-in flash of any camera is _VERY_ limited in range and don't try to illuminate the whole stage from the last row. Besides being annoying to the performers as well as your fellow spectators flash should be used very carefully anyway. It is so easy to blast a romatic scene into a hard cold flat picture by using frontal flash. Of course on the other hand using e.g. the right amount of slow fill flash at the right moment can produce stunningly beautiful photos. jue Goodness, "a romantic scene"? It's a school concert! :-) |
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Newbie, D80 settings for School concert
"N" wrote:
"Jürgen Exner" wrote in message .. . PLEASE keep in mind that the build-in flash of any camera is _VERY_ limited in range and don't try to illuminate the whole stage from the last row. Besides being annoying to the performers as well as your fellow spectators flash should be used very carefully anyway. It is so easy to blast a romatic scene into a hard cold flat picture by using frontal flash. Of course on the other hand using e.g. the right amount of slow fill flash at the right moment can produce stunningly beautiful photos. Goodness, "a romantic scene"? It's a school concert! Well, I guess "romantic" may have different meanings in different cultures. A violinist's face illuminated only by the reading light for the sheet music can be very romantic. jue |
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