Surprising evening

[pphaneuf]

Went to Old Dublin tonight, had a lot of fun with azrhey (and J!), blacksquiggles, miseri, swestrup and taxlady. Came out of that with all the body parts I had on the way in, which is pretty good, in my book.

After that, I felt like walking around and taking photos, so I headed toward my place, remembering that emjayne mentioned being at Grumpy's with some other people, thought I'd stop there on the way. Ended up staying until 2am, practicing my rusty-but-once-good candid photography skills (timing is everything!) with a bunch of willing subjects. Taking good photos of people while they're talking is all about timing, and I found myself annoyed at the shutter lag on my 20D (which is actually excellent, but it's still there!). Canon needs to make a rangefinder with their 20D innards, obviously. :-)

Now, time to hit the bed.


emjayne


boyinsantiago


gorbash_dragon


rezendi


ryss_rhiannon

Notably missing from the photos is don_teo, and two others who were also there later on.

Comments

[pdage.livejournal.com]

Trust me that's completly unecessary :) I managed to shoot half of my club stuff in iso 800 with my crummy 25-135mm f3.5-5.6, so you know what minimum F I'd be using. Besides, big apertures are sometimes too risky.

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28-135 is IS no ? You gain 2 to 4 stops easily.

50mm f1.4 is cheaper :-)

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

Because of the reduced DOF? That's true, although having a big aperture makes for better focusing performance in the dark, which is quite annoying when it lets you down. :-)

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550EX shut off. fsck efficent.

btw, the f1.4 becomes better at 3.5 :-)

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

True, although I never remember the custom function to disable the flash. Well, yay for the 20D, I can just look through the menu. :-)