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Paid Theatre Shoot
Posted By: mel, 08-02-2008, 08:59 AM

This is a selection of images from a paid shoot for local arts center. The event is a play put on during a summer workshop for high school age students. They work for two weeks putting the show together, then have two performances. The pictures I took were for a promotional display and possibly one or two for news release. They may also sell prints of the images to parents. Not sure on that one. If they do, next time I'll ask for more money than what they offered me.

No flash was used. All were taken with the stage lighting during a full-tech rehearsal. The last two shots were posed and taken using a tripod. Some color correcting was done post and bits of cropping and straightening here and there.

The director was thrilled with them so I guess it's all good.














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Excellent work! The lighting dude did a good job too.
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Good job. Must have been hard but you did well.
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Good stuff, Mel (as usual).

How much cropping did you do on these? Do you have any wide shots?

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Excellent work! The lighting dude did a good job too.
Thanks. The lighting guy is pretty good. He does an excellent job teaching the students as well.

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Good job. Must have been hard but you did well.
Thanks! I won't tell you how many shots I took versus how many I kept

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Good stuff, Mel (as usual).

How much cropping did you do on these? Do you have any wide shots?
Wow gee, thanks! I didn't do a whole lot of cropping, mainly just to eliminate things like exit signs that somehow crept into the shot. I was aiming to not make it obvious there is a stage. This one here is about as wide as I went. If I went wider I'd get all the junk and lights above the stage and and the front edge of the stage. It's actually a fairly small stage and theatre.

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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?
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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.

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I'd say you did great with both the lighting and the composition. That's what I call using your tools very well.
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They are all good but the 3rd and 5th shots are real standouts! well done Mel. Both of those could be promo posters for the play. You did very well. See all that lusting over new lenses was unnecessary!
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Lucky!!??? I donnnnnnnnnnnnnn't think so.
Mel you have XLD well done. Took 500 shots kept 20 right - its all in the learning experience. I have no doubt the next time you'll shoot 250 and keep 50.
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Well done Mel - have a shot a few of my daughters plays while she was in HS so I can relate to how difficult that envrionment can be. Excellent.
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Amazing Mel. I just gotta get me some of them cheap lenses Be careful, now that you've got some spending money, if you blow it on fast glass you might give Benjikan a run for his money
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Thanks. The lighting guy is pretty good. He does an excellent job teaching the students as well.
I have done a little work in theatre (mostly sound) and can appreciate good lighting. It takes a lot of knowledge and creativity.
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Hey Mel, neat work. You should be proud of yourself.
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Everyone else has said it allready Mel, congrats on a marvelous shoot.

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