Maybe he's testing the weather sealing capabilities of it

jokes aside, there are always people who have too much cash but don't know where to spend.

I think you pulled down the highlight slider too much, if you look closer, you can see the buildings are glowing. Colors looked fake too.

A HDR photo doesn't mean it has to have the glow

Thinking the same too, but the camera is metering the exposure of the burger maybe, since it is quite bright (for a black subject).

Shot a concert for my school last week, felt tiring after shooting for 3 hours with around 500 pictures. Then I realized the most tiring part is processing them the lighting was too harsh and tricky, making a lot of adjustments needed during PP, ended up spending 6 hours finish all the pictures.

Moral of the story, think before you hit the shutter...

yeah of course not all of them, but no choice since it was a dance performance, the dancers move really quick, had to spray and pray most of the times. end up only getting around 200 usable ones.

Can't really said I didn't think at all, but since it was my first time shooting something like this, I don't really have any experience, and the action was happening really quick, I took a lot more pictures than I used to.

@legendlee here's a few of them.


IMG_2070 by tuna97, on Flickr


IMG_1881 by tuna97, on Flickr


IMG_1790 by tuna97, on Flickr


IMG_1753 by tuna97, on Flickr

I can't really set the shutter in manual, the lighting changes too fast, sometimes it is very bright, then the next second the light is shut off or become a lot darker, I used Av in all these shots.

But in all of my pictures, I noticed that some only have 1/100 shutter speed with f2.8 to get the same exposure, causing the subject to be blurred. I stand quite close to the stage to get myself a easier reach to the dancers since they move front and back really quick, even at 200mm sometimes I still can't get a close shot of the dancer on the far right of the stage (i am standing on the left side). Focusing isn't really a problem, the Sigma 70-200 HSM performed quite good with my 550D, 90% of the pictures are focused well.

Most of the unusable pictures are caused by bad face expression, the subject falling out of the frame or the shutter speed isn't high enough.

Again I don't really think that the lens is that slow (used the canon 70-200 is ii before, the sigma is just a bit slower). i tried standing on the middle, but i am worried of blocking the audience if i stand far from the stage which would end up stucking in the middle of the seats.

I don't really use manual mode that often, so I rather stick with Av than missing shots because of slow response on changing settings .


IMG_2319 by tuna97, on Flickr

this is how the audience area looked like.

yeah... sometimes the surroundings don't really allow you to shoot from certain position, making the angles limited

hmm didn't thought about this during that time. or maybe i should set the iso auto but with f2.8 and around 1/300 shutter speed.

wow this guy's works are awesome!

http://capturingthenight.deviantart.com/

the way he captured the milky way and stars are really amazing.

haha of course it's sifu Alexlimco.

But one thing I noticed about those good photos on deviantart is they are so nicely edited, so perfect, don't know how they did that.

Flash is good, but I don't think flash is allowed in most stage performances. I am using the YN 560 now, works nicely if once you get the correct power for the flash.

This is merged from multiple shots right?

haha i am thinking the same. i once shot portraits at riverside, i tried to get long exposure of the water, around 2-3 seconds, but my subject just can't sit perfectly still during the whole exposure.

oh! didn't thought about this during that time, but wont the subject leave any sign of movement in the whole picture? I mean when the subject is moving, the sensor will still absorb light right?

wouldn't be surprised if the 50mm got pricier, it has metal mounts, better built quality, a proper focus ring and DOF/Distance window.

ugh canon, why you strip down the 1.8 so much, the mark II is just.... shiat build.

o.O where can I find the lens?

Why use ISO3200? considering that shutter speed, you can drop to ISO100 without any handheld problem.