Church Musical

djsilver666666

Shooting plays or musicals are always difficult, the lighting, shaking, trying to position yourself to get the shot without disturbing the other viewers to much...

Most of the time I was shooting at F5 and ISO1600 for the dim light and just my hands to stabilize the camera.

Here they are (these are completely un-edited) comments and criticism are welcome!

Richard

Except for #2 and #3, you did a good job dealing with what's always a difficult shooting environment. Nice work.

mr peas

Yea, next time try to shoot with a larger aperture. F3.5 is also good,but not as good as 2.8, but then again the dof will be much smaller.

Also, try stopping down full 2 stops on Av mode, and shoot Raw then punch up the image afterwards so that your fotos will be more sharper with a quicker shutter time.

Not bad at all! keep it up!

Foochar

If pictures are important to the group you should see if they would be willing to take the time before or after a performance to "stage" some shots. This allows you to take pictures without worrying about getting in the way of the audience or distracting the actors, if you have to you can even use flash, although this can detract from any special lighting. If you have a cooperative lighting technician you can get them to boost the intensity of the lighting to let you get a faster shutter speed. You can also ask the actors to freeze in a particular pose so that you don't have to worry about motion blur from your subjects.

A group at my church does a six night musical production that they write in house every year. I am the lighting designer and technical director for the productions, and also take the pictures. We typically don't do any pictures of the live performances, but spend an hour or more either before or after a couple of the performances staging shots. Unless you are in the cast/crew you wouldn't know that they aren't from an actual performance unless we happen to get empty seats in the shots.

Here are a few samples from our shows, all of these were staged shots before or after a performance.





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