Had another church gig tonight (and continuing in the morning Sunday). An outdoors vespers service followed the inside church function. I knew the camera would have problems with auto focus in the dark so I did some homework ahead of time in the afternoon.
I went online and Googled hyperfocus calculator. I knew which lens I intended to use so I preselected three focal lengths I was likely to use and decided I would shoot everything at f/8. I ended up with an assortment of "focus spots" that would insure that everything from "real close" to infinity would be sharp. When I went outside tonight I switched to manual focus, made my setting and forgot about it. Worked like a charm I had the camera on aperture priority (f/8) and just let Nikon pick the shutter speed. The speeds produced ranger from 14 seconds to 25 seconds.
This was a pre-event shot I made just to see if "things looked right":
When the service started, people were holding candles. I knew the long exposure would give me some motion blur but I was OK with that. I had hopes the resulting images would fit the mood of the service. I'm happy with what I got:
I was shooting RAW + Jpeg Normal and was interested to see if I could find a significant difference in the images. Jpeg, as processed by the camera came out warmer...
I'm not sure why that is. In ACR I did not make any WB adjustments at all, I left it "as shot"...
I shot about half the service with available light and then turned the speedlight on. I'll be interested to see which ones the "website lady" uses. I think the available light shots are cool.
Rusty
I went online and Googled hyperfocus calculator. I knew which lens I intended to use so I preselected three focal lengths I was likely to use and decided I would shoot everything at f/8. I ended up with an assortment of "focus spots" that would insure that everything from "real close" to infinity would be sharp. When I went outside tonight I switched to manual focus, made my setting and forgot about it. Worked like a charm I had the camera on aperture priority (f/8) and just let Nikon pick the shutter speed. The speeds produced ranger from 14 seconds to 25 seconds.
This was a pre-event shot I made just to see if "things looked right":
When the service started, people were holding candles. I knew the long exposure would give me some motion blur but I was OK with that. I had hopes the resulting images would fit the mood of the service. I'm happy with what I got:
I was shooting RAW + Jpeg Normal and was interested to see if I could find a significant difference in the images. Jpeg, as processed by the camera came out warmer...
I'm not sure why that is. In ACR I did not make any WB adjustments at all, I left it "as shot"...
I shot about half the service with available light and then turned the speedlight on. I'll be interested to see which ones the "website lady" uses. I think the available light shots are cool.
Rusty