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Forum: Photographic Technique
10-04-2007, 02:45 PM
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High quality Jpeg is just fine when you are shooting at high ISO. No one is going to be pixle peeping at a 1600 ISO photo, they are all noisy. You can help a little by setting JPEG quality to maximum, sharpness and saturation to neutral.
Don't try to make something sharp and saturated when you don't need to
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Forum: Photographic Technique
10-04-2007, 06:03 AM
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I would have to agree with others in this forum, and shoot (if you have it) with an F1.4 50mm (I use a Kmount manual focus). You will need to be close but you have indicated this is a possibility. Your kit lens may be a little slow. I did a coffee shop performance with my daughter this way. Talk about close to the subject, but 50mm was just right. I was 12-15 feet away! any further back and you will need a longer lens.
Perhaps one of the new 50-135/150 F2.8 lenses would be an asset, or if you have the time to change lenses, dedicated, but faster prime lenses, say 70mm, 85mm, 100mm, 135mm etc. This all depends on what you have available.
I would also avoid using the on board flash, if at all possible, opting either for natural light, or external flash. The on board flash opens up the possibility of red-eye, and red eye reduction also burns batteries.
Aside from the important legal stuff (which I did not need to worry about as I did not intend to publish), the most important thing, again said by others, is to set the camera in manual, and pick the settings you want (especially in flash mode if you use it) You need to be careful about controlling the flash to natural light ratio, I would not trust automatic settings.
The other thing that would be useful, and I am not sure you will be able to, is to either watch a rehersal, or the real show in advance of the shoot. You need to know what is going to happen to get the best shots. This is the same with stage performances. Knowing when a good moment will happen is very important.
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