some shot from my company holiday party

Qarik

I work in silicon valley and my company had it's holiday party, like they do every year, after the holidays. Saves money and isnres folks can atend I guess? :ivar my god the lighting was bad. It was great practice for me though in low light conditions. How did I do?:dunno



dessert!


marketing lady


some dancing!


disco ball


field apps lady


the man in black


our ceo and his girl friend


and me of course

divamum

I think these are great, especially given the lighting. What were your lens and settings?

Qarik

thanks

I think they turned out okay. D90 and the 85mm 1.4. I was at iso 800-1600 the whole time and fstops from 3-10 or so. Shutter speeds ranged from 1/60 to 1/200. Sb600 with the fong light sphere. Thank goodness the ceilings weren't that high!

thegreenegg

These are very nice captures and I'm sure your co-workers would agree. Its seems you have the perfect balance between candid shots and staged shots and even a few atmospheric shots put in (I love the disco light)
Very good job.
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Qarik

Thanks for the kind words. I think they turned out ok!

ian408

I think you did well given the circumstance. About the only suggestion I have is to correct the white balance. Otherwise, some nice stuff.

Qarik

hmm..more like get my mac book monitor calibrated. These look more orangish on my work monitor then on the macbook where I did my editing.

NateW

Qarik wrote:

hmm..more like get my mac book monitor calibrated. These look more orangish on my work monitor then on the macbook where I did my editing.

Check out your Displays control panel (color tab) and do the calibration right there. It may not be as perfect as hardware (which costs, where this is free), but it should get you to the right ballpark. (Any comments out there?)

Of course, in the process of making sure I had the right references, I found I'd been using the wrong calibration file... So, thank you for "making" me look!

NateW

I really like the shot of "The Man In Black"; I'd love to get a second chance to shoot him and get a proper background behind him. The lighting was great to show the character of his face. I can just imagine what kind of great results you could get in a more studio-like setup.

Re: the boss/GF pic: looks like you cropped to get rid of something behind/in-front of them? it might be nice to get rid of some of the top too to get the ratio back in order. Would have been perfect if you could have had the shot without the distracting lights in the background right behind and above their heads, too, but you get what you can when you're at an event like this.

(I just have to remind myself these are event shots and not posed ones, or I'll start throwing comments in there you probably already know! I don't show my event shots for pretty much this reason: I see the results and start hacking them to pieces!)
So keep enjoying the post-holiday's holiday parties; if your company is still throwing them, take it for what it's worth!

NeilL

well, I like these very much. they capture the characters and the atmosphere very nicely. not much wrong with the WB seems to me, the ambient would have made a light soup. the lighting and bokeh are exemplary. I only miss a slight curves lift (if that's your method?).

I like the crop of the CEO&GF, and I like the lights in the BG - it's a nice environmental effect and has late 19C associations for me (Toulouse-Lautrec).

the man (not totally) in black has a white spot an inch from his lapel L (!)

if you want a superb noise fix for portrait shots I am blown over by Dfine by Nik Software.

DxO's latest has an engine for high ISO noise, but I haven't tried it yet.

Agnieszka

Spot on!