High School Play

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited March 2, 2006 in People
Tonight I managed to see and shoot Thousand Oaks HS play "The Mistery of Edwin Drood".

I shot all of it with my Canon 20D and borrowed 100-400L, at ISO 1600 and 800. I wish I had 70-200L f/2.8: to my dismay, about 30% came out blurry.

However, since I took about 230 shots, I still came out with a few decent ones.:):

Here are some samples:
#1:
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#2:
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#3:
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#4:
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#5:
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#6:
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#7:
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#8:
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#9:
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#10:
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#11:
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The rest is here: http://nik.smugmug.com/gallery/1243104

Enjoy shooting school play!
"May the f/stop be with you!"

Comments

  • gluwatergluwater Registered Users Posts: 3,599 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2006
    Great shots Nik. I can barely see any noise at all in these. I think you did a great job with the 100-400.
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2006
    Thanks, Nick!
    gluwater wrote:
    Great shots Nik. I can barely see any noise at all in these. I think you did a great job with the 100-400.
    Most of the pictures with noticeable noise also turned out to be blurred, hence theny didn't make the cut...
    I found that ISO 1600 can be pretty good if you have enough light. And of course, IS helped: a lot of shot were taken at full tele, and despite of all being handheld, outcome factor was pretty decent, I think..
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  • Yuri PautovYuri Pautov Registered Users Posts: 1,918 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2006
    Good work, Nikolai!
    Yuri
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2006
    Thanks, Yuri!
    Yuri Pautov wrote:
    Good work, Nikolai!
    Yuri

    Only as good as the sjubject, methinks:-)mwink.gif
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  • dancinkatedancinkate Registered Users Posts: 267 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2006
    Very nice! thumb.gif
  • SystemSystem Registered Users Posts: 8,186 moderator
    edited March 2, 2006
    these are great!

    george
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2006
    Thanks, Kate!
    dancinkate wrote:
    Very nice! thumb.gif
    Appreciate your stopping by!
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    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2006
    George,
    gefillmore wrote:
    these are great!

    george

    Thanks, glad you like them!
    Cheers!1drink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • Scott_QuierScott_Quier Registered Users Posts: 6,524 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2006
    These are some seriously nice photosthumb.gif. I especially like
    • the expressions captured in #3 and #4. Would really like to know more about the production to know more about why the guy in #4 is posed the way he is (but not enough to get a copy of the play and figure it out
    • The detail, resolution, and lack of appearant noise in #8
    • Would really like to know what was going though the mind of the young lady on the right in #10 - it's almost what I would expect to see if there was someone behind her doing something that should not ought to be done.
    Very nice indeed. I started to look at the rest of them before I finished this and almost forgot about posing this reply. Nice work:):
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited March 2, 2006
    Hey, Scott!
    Scott_Quier wrote:
    These are some seriously nice photosthumb.gif. I especially like
    • the expressions captured in #3 and #4. Would really like to know more about the production to know more about why the guy in #4 is posed the way he is (but not enough to get a copy of the play and figure it out
    • The detail, resolution, and lack of appearant noise in #8
    • Would really like to know what was going though the mind of the young lady on the right in #10 - it's almost what I would expect to see if there was someone behind her doing something that should not ought to be done.
    Very nice indeed. I started to look at the rest of them before I finished this and almost forgot about posing this reply. Nice work:):

    Thank you very much for your feedback!
    I wish I could tell you more about ##3 and 4, but ne_nau.gif It's Dickens, so it's kinda twisted. #10 is easy, however: nothing's going on, she's just "feeling naughty":):

    I think the lack of "apparent noise" shall be attributed to the following reasons:
    1) Canon rocks!:-) Even ISO 1600 is OK if you have enough light (which luckily was almost the case. Still makes me crave for /f2.8 or better)
    2) Shooting RAW and applying color noise reduction aloows for a kwik-n-ez fix.

    Cheers!1drink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
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