My frist "gig" or "Meet the Mayor"

kini62

I was "volunteered" to take some photos of our outgoing Mayor's informal farewell during work hours get together. Anyway I'm an LEO and our office is next door to where this took place and I'm one of the few that has a decent camera and the boss "suggested" that someone take some photos.

I have a hard enough time getting decent shots of my kids, depsite my somewhat (to me) expensive kit. But I did my best.

Typical conference type room, the light started blasting in after about an hour by the front door and that's where the mayor was of course, so quite a bit of blown highlights. I started shooting with bounced flash and later went to no flash, Av and soon after went to manual as the light coming in the windows played havoc with the metering.

40D, 24-105, ISO 400-800 F4-5.6, quick and not too good conversion to B&W in DPP. Oh and I shot jpeg because I needed to get these on a disk by the end of the day.

So, without further adieu- meet the mayor





Here the mayor on the right is talking to his managing director, AKA the "vice mayor" who is also retiring.




She was looking at someone else taking a photo- oh well. :dunno


Anyway, wouldn't want to do this for a living. I had/have no clue as to what I was doing but I think I got some decent shots that will make some nice memories for the mayor and his staff.

Thanks for looking
Gene

roentarre

I like the fact that you convert the images into black and white.

Ed911

Good job...
I think you did a good job. The background was full of light and yet you managed to capture your subject and his personality...which is what you were after. I like the way the light plays off of his face in some of the shots. Thanks for sharing.

Scott_Quier

- I think you did a wonderful job and I think the conversion to B&W might have been a really good idea. You had natural light from the windows and, I'm guessing, flourescent light from over-head. Mixed light makes for some really tough decisions about the WB to use.

As for the photos themselves, I really like the light and expressions in both #2 and #4

bob swanson

For those of us that do this for a living there are certain safeguards but you did a pretty good job. bsvirginian

kini62

Thanks everyone for the kind words. Much appreciated.

Happy Thanksgiving

Gene

clemensphoto's

Very nice, especially converting to B&W.