Originally posted by LaRee It looks to me like you had really good light under the circumstances. I shot quite a few photos for my son's drama troup last year and the lighting was really low. I had to shoot iso 1600 wide open and wait for a break in the action to get anything! These look great Mel. Can you share your settings?
Thank you!
I shot in SV mode so I could go with the minimum ISO for the light available. I was able to keep it at 560 for most of it. I think I used all three metering modes, depending on the shot, and kept the aperture as open and my lens would allow. It was shoot, chimp, shoot, chimp, shoot, chimp, constantly through the entire thing to make adjustments based on the lighting and angle etc. I had to adjust things on the fly constantly.
And yeah, I had to wait until there wasn't much movement. I couldn't get a shutter fast enough to stop any REAL action, just minimal action.
I think the fact that it was a small stage and I could get right up to the edge helped. I don't know. I think I mostly got lucky.